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Six example sentences with evocative, each labelled with its topic.
Grainy prints of empty diners at dawn are evocative enough that viewers claim they can smell the coffee.
Photography
The opening cello line of the score is so evocative that listeners picture rain on a station platform.
Music
Her descriptions of the market are evocative, summoning heat, dust, and the cries of fruit sellers in one paragraph.
Literature
The smell of cardamom is so evocative for her that one whiff returns her to a grandmother's kitchen in Kerala.
Cooking
The old station's evocative signage, hand painted in three languages, sends visitors straight back to the age of steam.
Travel
The architect wanted an evocative facade, so the ridged concrete recalls the grain silos that once stood on the site.
Architecture
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- Israeli Psychometric English dictionary (Campus IL / NITE)Authoritative
- 5000 GRE Words (widely used study list)Recognized
- GRE Word List 4700 (widely used study list)Recognized
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