evoke

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Words have power, and what these words evoke is precisely what American policy makers want to evoke: terror.

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  1. transitive verb To summon or call forth: actions that evoked our mistrust.
  2. transitive verb To call to mind by naming, citing, or suggesting: songs that evoke old memories.
  3. transitive verb To create anew, especially by means of the imagination: a novel that evokes the Depression in accurate detail.
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  • McDonald plays up the mythic qualities of the fracters, drawing their names from the Kabbalah and other sources, and the feelings they evoke are awesome: Binah, which freezes its beholder's time sense; Gevurah, "the destroying fear of God"; Tiferet, "healing and wholeness." —  F ;SF; - vol 087 issue 03 - September 1994
  • They teach their readers to love the worlds they evoke, and in the process they challenge their readers to consider how our own world might be different. —  Strange Horizons Aug '01
  • Many of the feelings and emotions that music can evoke are a result of the tension between the consonant (pleasant) sound of some intervals, and the dissonant sound of others. —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • All that the families in the Chengara holdout have managed to evoke is a few approving nods from here and there. —  Kafila
  • Words have power, and what these words evoke is precisely what American policy makers want to evoke: terror. —  Rochester IMC
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  1. Latin ēvocāre : ē-, ex-, ex- + vocāre, to call; see wekw- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French évoquer = Spanish Portuguese evocar = Italian evocare, from Latin evocare, call forth, summon, call a deity out of a besieged city, from e, out, + vocare, call: see vocation, and cf. avoke, convoke, invoke, provoke, revoke.
 

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