elicit

In a sentence

Six example sentences with elicit, each labelled with its topic.

• A photograph of a stranger's face will elicit a measurable startle response before the viewer can name the expression.

  Psychology

• Tapping the tendon below the kneecap should elicit a kick, and its absence tells the neurologist something useful.

  Medicine

• The director cut the score entirely, trusting the silence to elicit more dread than any string section could.

  Movies

• The lawyer's careful questions were designed to elicit one admission, and the witness gave it in the fourth hour.

  Law

• The rookie's dunk elicited a roar from the crowd, which had sat quietly through three scoreless minutes.

  Basketball

• The survey was written to elicit complaints rather than praise, since the founders already knew what users liked.

  Startups

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains elicit. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

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