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evoked

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e·voke  (-vk)
tr.v. e·voked, e·vok·ing, e·vokes
1. To summon or call forth: actions that evoked our mistrust.
2. To call to mind by naming, citing, or suggesting: songs that evoke old memories.
3. To create anew, especially by means of the imagination: a novel that evokes the Depression in accurate detail.
[Latin vocre : -, ex-, ex- + vocre, to call; see wekw- in Indo-European roots.]
evo·ca·ble (v-k-bl, -vk-) adj.
Synonyms: evoke, educe, elicit
These verbs mean to draw forth or bring out something latent, hidden, or unexpressed: evoke laughter; educed significance from the event; trying to elicit the truth.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.evoked - called forth from a latent or potential state by stimulation; "evoked potentials"; "an elicited response"
elicited
induced - brought about or caused; not spontaneous; "a case of steroid-induced weakness"


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Having finished the paper, a second cup of coffee and a roll and butter, he got up, shaking the crumbs of the roll off his waistcoat; and, squaring his broad chest, he smiled joyously: not because there was anything particularly agreeable in his mind--the joyous smile was evoked by a good digestion.
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
He said it with admirable serenity, with positive unimpeachable gaiety; and doubtless it was that very note that most evoked for me the poignancy, the unnatural childish tragedy, of his probable reappearance at the end of three months with all this bravado and still more dishonor.
Turn Of The Screw by James, Henry View in context
He taught the weekly singing-school (then a feature of village life) in half a dozen neighboring towns, he played the violin and "called off" at dances, or evoked rich harmonies from church melodeons on Sundays.
Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm by Wiggin, Kate Douglas View in context
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