Verb

(provok)

to cause someone to become annoyed or angry.

Don't provoke the dog; it may try to bite you.

* Bible, Eph. vi. 4

Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.

to bring about a reaction.

* J. Burroughs

To the poet the meaning is what he pleases to make it, what it provokes in his own soul.

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(obsolete) To appeal.

(Dryden)

Verb

(en verb)

To evoke, educe (emotions, feelings, responses, etc.); to generate, obtain, or provoke as a response or answer.

To draw out, bring out, bring forth (something latent); to obtain information from someone or something.

Fred wished to elicit the time of the meeting from Jane.

''Did you elicit a response?

To use logic to arrive at truth; to derive by reason; deduce; construe.