verb
- Evoke or provoke to appear or occur.
- usage: "Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple"
- Summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic.
- usage: "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the air"; "call down the spirits from the mountain"
- synonyms: raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke, evoke, stir, call down, arouse, bring up, put forward
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