EVOKE
What does "EVOKE" mean?
To bring a feeling, memory, or image into the mind.
Meanings
- To call up or produce a memory, emotion, or response. The smell of pine evokes my grandmother's house.
- To summon or call forth a spirit or presence. The ritual was meant to evoke the dead. formal
- To elicit a reaction or specified response. Her speech evoked loud applause.
Word origin
From Latin 'evocare' meaning 'to call out, summon', from 'e-' (out) plus 'vocare' (to call), which is related to 'vox', the Latin for voice.
Remember it
EVOKE = E + VO(ice) + KE: a voice calls something out of memory.
A little poem
One chord on the stairs-
a room you tore down years ago
rebuilds itself, whole.
haiku
Wordplay
- A ghost-hunter told me he could evoke any spirit on command. I asked him to summon my motivation - he's still looking.
What it teaches
Nothing summons the past so completely as a smell or a song you were not bracing for.
Quick facts
What does EVOKE mean?
To bring a feeling, memory, or image into the mind.
Is EVOKE a valid word?
Yes — EVOKE is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is EVOKE?
EVOKE has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does EVOKE come from?
From Latin 'evocare' meaning 'to call out, summon', from 'e-' (out) plus 'vocare' (to call), which is related to 'vox', the Latin for voice.
What can EVOKE teach us?
Nothing summons the past so completely as a smell or a song you were not bracing for.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.