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1. Call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
   "elicit pity";
   - arouse, enkindle [literary], kindle, evoke, fire, raise, provoke
    
2. Deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)
   "We elicited some interesting linguistic data from the native informant";
   - educe [formal], evoke, extract, draw out
    
3. (logic) derive by reason
   "elicit a solution"

Sounds like: elation, illationt, illici

Derived forms: elicits, eliciting, elicited

Type of: construe, create, deduce, deduct, derive, infer, interpret, make, see