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Core action
Bring a feeling, memory, image, or response to mind.
Example
The scent evoked memories of childhood.
evoke
/ɪˈvəʊk/ · ih-VOHKverb
Bring a feeling, memory, image, or response to mind.
Use evoke to express this relationship precisely: bring a feeling, memory, image, or response to mind.
What evoke Really Means
The word becomes easier to use when its closely related senses are separated and compared.
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Common construction
Use this expression in its normal grammatical frame so the relationship between the surrounding ideas remains explicit.
Example
Dark colours evoke a sense of unease.
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Reasoning effect
It tells the reader how to interpret the timing, scope, evidence, contrast, condition, or consequence in the statement.
Example
The melody evokes the sea without imitating it directly.
Use evoke Naturally
Notice how the surrounding noun or clause reveals the exact shade of meaning.
The scent evoked memories of childhood.
Dark colours evoke a sense of unease.
The melody evokes the sea without imitating it directly.
Precision Matters
Evoke overlaps with several common words, but each carries a different emphasis.
evoke
vs.Means bring a feeling, memory, image, or response to mind.
suppress
Means prevent, restrain, stop, or keep something from being expressed, revealed, or developing.
evoke
vs.Means bring a feeling, memory, image, or response to mind.
disclose
Means reveal or make information known, especially information previously hidden or private.
evoke
vs.Means bring a feeling, memory, image, or response to mind.
depict
Means represent, portray, or show someone or something in words, images, or another medium.
evoke
vs.Means bring a feeling, memory, image, or response to mind.
invoke
Means call on a law, authority, principle, person, or power for support, justification, or action.
Test evoke in Context
It calls those memories and feelings to mind.
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The restored recording may ___ vivid memories in listeners who heard the broadcast as children.