invoke
Other forms: invoked; invoking; invokes
To invoke is to call up something such as a law, a higher power, or even a ghost. In court, you might invoke the Fifth Amendment (the right not to say something that will make you look bad) if you don't want to talk.
You can invoke all kinds of people or ideas, alive or dead: "She invokes the spirit of good writing when she proofreads her work." In a time of need, you might invoke a higher power. You could invoke Martin Luther King when talking about equal rights. You might even invoke the spirit of your dead cat at a séance. Just make sure you don't evoke (to bring on a strong emotional reaction) your dead cat; that would just be weird.
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request earnestly (something from somebody); ask for aid or protection“Invoke God in times of trouble”
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synonyms:
appeal
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summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
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synonyms:
arouse, bring up, call down, call forth, conjure, conjure up, evoke, put forward, raise, stir
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call forth, evoke, kick up, provoke
evoke or provoke to appear or occur
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call forth, evoke, kick up, provoke
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cite as an authority; resort to
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Vocabulary lists containing invoke
In this second book of the Supernatural Investigations series, thirteen-year-old Amari Peters of Atlanta's Whitman Preparatory Academy must compete for the Crown in order to save her brother, stop a war, and prevent the future of magic from being controlled by evil forces.
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Noor and Sal — two Pakistani American teenagers living in a small town — are falling in love as they struggle with difficult family issues.
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