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Verb: elicit  i'li-sit
  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