EVOKING Synonyms

• causing or tending to cause anger or resentment

• the act of arousing

• capable of arousing enthusiasm or excitement

• rousing to activity or heightened action as by spurring or goading

• agitating a liquid with an implement

• arousing to a particular emotion or action

• capable of arousing enthusiasm or excitement

• exciting strong but not unpleasant emotions

• calling up supposed supernatural forces by spells and incantations

• call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)

• deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)

• derive by reason

• call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)

• stop sleeping

• summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic

• cause to be alert and energetic

• cause to become awake or conscious

• to begin moving

• to evoke sexual feelings

• call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)

• deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)

• derive by reason

• call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)

• evoke or provoke to appear or occur

• provide the needed stimulus for

• annoy continually or chronically

• the amount a salary is increased

• an upward slope or grade (as in a road)

• increasing the size of a bet (as in poker)

• the act of raising something

• raise the level or amount of something

• raise from a lower to a higher position

• cause to be heard or known; express or utter

• collect funds for a specific purpose

• cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques

• look after a child until it is an adult

• summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic

• move upwards

• construct, build, or erect

• call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)

• create a disturbance, especially by making a great noise

• raise in rank or condition

• increase the level of

• give a promotion to or assign to a higher position

• cause to puff up with a leaven

• bid (one's partner's suit) at a higher level

• bet more than the previous player

• cause to assemble or enlist in military

• put forward for consideration or discussion

• pronounce (vowels) by bringing the tongue closer to the roof of the mouth

• activate or stir up

• establish radio communications with

• multiply (a number) by itself a specified number of times: 8 is 2 raised to the power 3

• bring (a surface or a design) into relief and cause to project

• invigorate or heighten

• put an end to

• cause to become alive again

• register formally as a participant or member

• evoke or provoke to appear or occur

• summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic

• summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic

• ask for or request earnestly

• engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together

• deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)

• develop or evolve from a latent or potential state

• cause to start burning

• call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)

• a solution obtained by steeping or soaking a substance (usually in water)

• a passage selected from a larger work

• remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense

• get despite difficulties or obstacles

• deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)

• extract by the process of distillation

• separate (a metal) from an ore

• obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action

• take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy

• calculate the root of a number

• the event of something burning (often destructive)

• the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy

• the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke

• a fireplace in which a relatively small fire is burning

• once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles), associated with the humour bile

• feelings of great warmth and intensity

• fuel that is burning and is used as a means for cooking

• a severe trial

• intense adverse criticism

• start firing a weapon

• cause to go off

• bake in a kiln so as to harden

• terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position

• go off or discharge

• drive out or away by or as if by fire

• call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)

• destroy by fire

• provide with fuel

• generate an electrical impulse

• become ignited

• start or maintain a fire in

• summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic

• cite as an authority; resort to

• request earnestly (something from somebody); ask for aid or protection

• catch fire

• cause to start burning

• call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)

• a prominent or sensational but short-lived news event

• emotional agitation and excitement

• a rapid active commotion

• move an implement through

• move very slightly

• stir feelings in

• stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of

• affect emotionally

• summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic

• to begin moving

• mix or add by stirring

• make a proposal, declare a plan for something

• drop a hint; intimate by a hint

• imply as a possibility

• call to mind