elicit

1. Call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) (synset 201763170)
   "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy"
   is a type of: create, make - make or cause to be or to become
   subtypes:

   • strike a chord, touch a chord - evoke a reaction, response, or emotion
   • ask for, invite - increase the likelihood of
   • draw - elicit responses, such as objections, criticism, applause, etc.
   • rekindle - arouse again
   • infatuate - arouse unreasoning love or passion in and cause to behave in an irrational way
   • prick - to cause a sharp emotional pain
   • fire up, heat, ignite, inflame, stir up, wake - arouse or excite feelings and passions
   • excite, shake, shake up, stimulate, stir - stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of
   • excite - arouse or elicit a feeling
   • anger - make angry
   • discomfit, discompose, disconcert, untune, upset - cause to lose one's composure
   • shame - cause to be ashamed
   • bruise, hurt, injure, offend, spite, wound - hurt the feelings of
   • overcome, overpower, overtake, overwhelm, sweep over, whelm - overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli
   • interest - excite the curiosity of; engage the interest of
   same as: arouse, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke, raise
2. Deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning) (synset 201634074)
   "We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant"
   is a type of: construe, interpret, see - make sense of; assign a meaning to
   same as: draw out, educe, evoke, extract
3. Derive by reason (synset 200730788)
   "elicit a solution"
   referred to in: logic, logical system, system of logic - a system of reasoning
   is a type of: deduce, deduct, derive, infer - reason by deduction; establish by deduction

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