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convoke

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con·voke  (kn-vk)
tr.v. con·voked, con·vok·ing, con·vokes
To cause to assemble in a meeting; convene. See Synonyms at call.
[French convoquer, from Old French, from Latin convocre : com-, com- + vocre, to call; see wekw- in Indo-European roots.]
con·voker n.
convoke
Verb
[-voking, -voked] Formal to call together [Latin convocare]
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Verb1.convoke - call together; "The students were convened in the auditorium"
convene
summon - ask to come; "summon a lawyer"
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We convoke it in the event it might become/the comforting fire of poem.
The Poetry of Ana Maria Fagundo by Cowper, Mary / Reviewer's Bookwatch
The clearest evidence of the Bush administration's involvement in those events was in the immediate aftermath of the coup: President Bush did not convene his National Security Council following the overthrow of a constitutional government in an oil-rich country of major strategic importance; and the State Department did not convoke a meeting of foreign ministers of the Organization of American States (OAS), as required under the Santiago Declaration.
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