Elicit
verb
To get a response or answer from someone, usually through skillful actions or questions.
The teacher elicited the correct answer from the students by asking thought-provoking questions.
Often appears as...
- elicit a response
- elicit an answer
verb
To bring out or make clear something that was previously unclear or hidden.
The investigation was designed to elicit the truth about the incident.
Often appears as...
- elicit the truth
- elicit a confession
verb
To bring about or provoke a particular reaction or behavior.
The comedian's hilarious performance elicited laughs from the audience.
Often appears as...
- elicit laughter
- elicit applause
verb
To get a response or answer from someone, usually through skillful actions or questions.
The teacher elicited the correct answer from the students by asking thought-provoking questions.
Often appears as...
- elicit a response
- elicit an answer
verb
To bring out or make clear something that was previously unclear or hidden.
The investigation was designed to elicit the truth about the incident.
Often appears as...
- elicit the truth
- elicit a confession
verb
To bring about or provoke a particular reaction or behavior.
The comedian's hilarious performance elicited laughs from the audience.
Often appears as...
- elicit laughter
- elicit applause
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Pro Tip 1/2Skillful Questioning
Using 'elicit' implies the use of clever or thoughtful techniques to get an answer.
A counselor can often elicit honest feelings through open-ended questions.
Pro Tip 2/2Interactive Context
'Elicit' is often used when someone actively seeks a specific response from another person.
With a well-crafted survey, researchers elicit valuable data from participants.
Pro Tip 1/2Skillful Questioning
Using 'elicit' implies the use of clever or thoughtful techniques to get an answer.
A counselor can often elicit honest feelings through open-ended questions.
Pro Tip 2/2Interactive Context
'Elicit' is often used when someone actively seeks a specific response from another person.
With a well-crafted survey, researchers elicit valuable data from participants.
Pro Tip 1/2Skillful Questioning
Using 'elicit' implies the use of clever or thoughtful techniques to get an answer.
A counselor can often elicit honest feelings through open-ended questions.
Pro Tip 2/2Interactive Context
'Elicit' is often used when someone actively seeks a specific response from another person.
With a well-crafted survey, researchers elicit valuable data from participants.
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Why some people are more...
they are insensitive to signs that other people are in distress. And in particular, they have difficulty recognizing fearful facial expressions like this one. And fearful expressions convey urgent need and emotional distress, and they usually elicit compassion and a desire to help in people who see them, so it makes sense that people who tend to lack compassion
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Why do we cry? The three...
such as an increased heart rate and slower breathing. But scientists still aren't sure exactly how or why the tears themselves are helpful. They may be a social mechanism to elicit sympathy or show submission. But some studies have also found that emotional tears contain higher levels of stress hormones,
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Why some of us don't...
you learned it from the culture. We are first asked the question "What do you want to be when you grow up?" when we're about five years old. And the truth is that no one really cares what you say when you're that age. It's considered an innocuous question, posed to little kids to elicit cute replies,
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Color blind or color...
Now, I do not raise this issue to complain or in any way to elicit any kind of sympathy. I have succeeded in my life beyond my wildest expectations, and I have been treated well by people of all races more often than I have not. I tell the uniform story because it happened.
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What is international...
didn't know about international development is that the developing world is actually subsidizing us for every dollar that the developing world gets in aid ten dollars flow out into tax havens and international banks because of elicit dictator spending they hide their
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Inside a cartoonist's...
No matter the form them come in, cartoons elicit all kinds of emotions from the viewer - happiness, sadness, anger, hilarity, calm - and can transmit ideas in an instant. Cartoons are a universal medium enjoyed and understood around the world and across borders.
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Why can parrots talk? -...
Many probably have associations with words and may be drawn to ones that elicit certain responses— hence their capacity for profanity. But, especially after training, parrots have been observed to say things in the appropriate contexts
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This weird trick will...
even if it makes it more vulnerable to a rarer one. Many insects, for example, use flight to avoid predation. But painted redstarts take advantage of they boldly flash their colorful tail and wing feathers to elicit this response,
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Prairie Dogs Warning...
time elements in the call are and so this software here allows us to do this this is an alarm call elicited for a coyote and we can hear that it has a
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Witch Cleanser PIPE...
neighbors here public confession elicits forgiveness then the chosen
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Why some people are more...
they are insensitive to signs that other people are in distress. And in particular, they have difficulty recognizing fearful facial expressions like this one. And fearful expressions convey urgent need and emotional distress, and they usually elicit compassion and a desire to help in people who see them, so it makes sense that people who tend to lack compassion
Video examples
Why do we cry? The three...
such as an increased heart rate and slower breathing. But scientists still aren't sure exactly how or why the tears themselves are helpful. They may be a social mechanism to elicit sympathy or show submission. But some studies have also found that emotional tears contain higher levels of stress hormones,
Video examples
Why some of us don't...
you learned it from the culture. We are first asked the question "What do you want to be when you grow up?" when we're about five years old. And the truth is that no one really cares what you say when you're that age. It's considered an innocuous question, posed to little kids to elicit cute replies,
Video examples
Color blind or color...
Now, I do not raise this issue to complain or in any way to elicit any kind of sympathy. I have succeeded in my life beyond my wildest expectations, and I have been treated well by people of all races more often than I have not. I tell the uniform story because it happened.
Video examples
What is international...
didn't know about international development is that the developing world is actually subsidizing us for every dollar that the developing world gets in aid ten dollars flow out into tax havens and international banks because of elicit dictator spending they hide their
Video examples
Inside a cartoonist's...
No matter the form them come in, cartoons elicit all kinds of emotions from the viewer - happiness, sadness, anger, hilarity, calm - and can transmit ideas in an instant. Cartoons are a universal medium enjoyed and understood around the world and across borders.
Video examples
Why can parrots talk? -...
Many probably have associations with words and may be drawn to ones that elicit certain responses— hence their capacity for profanity. But, especially after training, parrots have been observed to say things in the appropriate contexts
Video examples
This weird trick will...
even if it makes it more vulnerable to a rarer one. Many insects, for example, use flight to avoid predation. But painted redstarts take advantage of they boldly flash their colorful tail and wing feathers to elicit this response,
Video examples
Prairie Dogs Warning...
time elements in the call are and so this software here allows us to do this this is an alarm call elicited for a coyote and we can hear that it has a
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Witch Cleanser PIPE...
neighbors here public confession elicits forgiveness then the chosen
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Gioconda Belli
American Author
There is a biological power that is intrinsic to the woman, to the female condition. Because you are able to give life. You are the reproducer of the species. Men feel very weak in front of a woman because a woman is capable of eliciting a number of instincts in a man. And that is what has made men very nervous about women.
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Charlotte Flair
American Athlete
No one ever has a chance to get to know the real me because I do play a bad guy, and sometimes it's hard to soak in the comments or the negativity because that's the response you want to elicit. I am a normal person, but that's part of the job. I'm playing a character, and that's my role.
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Alain de Botton
English Writer
It's very hard to respect people on holiday - everybody looks so silly at the beach, it makes you hate humanity - but when you see people at their work they elicit respect, whether it's a mechanic, a stonemason or an accountant.
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Kevin Owens
Canadian Athlete
I'm well aware that no matter how big of a jerk I am, some people will cheer me, and no matter what I do, some people will boo me, and that's fine. I just need to elicit emotion. That's all I care about.
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Christian Lous Lange
Norwegian Politician
The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were, a common mental pulse beat for the whole of civilized mankind.
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Michael Polanyi
Hungarian Scientist
Moreover, only a strong and united scientific opinion imposing the intrinsic value of scientific progress on society at large can elicit the support of scientific inquiry by the general public.
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P. J. O'Rourke
American Comedian
Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.
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James Buchanan
American President
The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
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John Buchan
Scottish Politician
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
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Michael Finkel
American Journalist
I'd lied many times: to bolster my credentials, to elicit sympathy, to make myself appear less ordinary.
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Gioconda Belli
American Author
There is a biological power that is intrinsic to the woman, to the female condition. Because you are able to give life. You are the reproducer of the species. Men feel very weak in front of a woman because a woman is capable of eliciting a number of instincts in a man. And that is what has made men very nervous about women.
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Charlotte Flair
American Athlete
No one ever has a chance to get to know the real me because I do play a bad guy, and sometimes it's hard to soak in the comments or the negativity because that's the response you want to elicit. I am a normal person, but that's part of the job. I'm playing a character, and that's my role.
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Alain de Botton
English Writer
It's very hard to respect people on holiday - everybody looks so silly at the beach, it makes you hate humanity - but when you see people at their work they elicit respect, whether it's a mechanic, a stonemason or an accountant.
Quote examples
Kevin Owens
Canadian Athlete
I'm well aware that no matter how big of a jerk I am, some people will cheer me, and no matter what I do, some people will boo me, and that's fine. I just need to elicit emotion. That's all I care about.
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Christian Lous Lange
Norwegian Politician
The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were, a common mental pulse beat for the whole of civilized mankind.
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Michael Polanyi
Hungarian Scientist
Moreover, only a strong and united scientific opinion imposing the intrinsic value of scientific progress on society at large can elicit the support of scientific inquiry by the general public.
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P. J. O'Rourke
American Comedian
Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.
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James Buchanan
American President
The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
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John Buchan
Scottish Politician
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
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Michael Finkel
American Journalist
I'd lied many times: to bolster my credentials, to elicit sympathy, to make myself appear less ordinary.
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