Invokeverb
(transitive) To call upon (a person, especially a god) for help, assistance or guidance.
Provokeverb
(transitive) To cause someone to become annoyed or angry.
‘Don't provoke the dog; it may try to bite you.’;
Invokeverb
(transitive) To appeal for validation to a (notably cited) authority.
‘In certain Christian circles, invoking the Bible constitutes irrefutable proof.’;
Provokeverb
(transitive) To bring about a reaction.
Invokeverb
(transitive) To conjure up with incantations.
‘This satanist ritual invokes Beelzebub.’;
Provokeverb
(obsolete) To appeal.
Invokeverb
(transitive) To bring about as an inevitable consequence.
‘Blasphemy is taboo as it may invoke divine wrath.’;
Provokeverb
To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite, as a person, to action by a challenge, by taunts, or by defiance; to exasperate; to irritate; to offend intolerably; to cause to retaliate.
‘Obey his voice, provoke him not.’; ‘Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.’; ‘Such actsOf contumacy will provoke the HighestTo make death in us live.’; ‘Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust?’; ‘To the poet the meaning is what he pleases to make it, what it provokes in his own soul.’;
Invokeverb
(transitive) To solicit, petition for, appeal to a favorable attitude.
‘The envoy invoked the King of Kings's magnanimity to reduce his province's tribute after another draught.’;
Provokeverb
To cause provocation or anger.
Invokeverb
To cause (a program or subroutine) to execute.
‘Interactive programs let the users enter choices and invoke the corresponding routines.’;
Provokeverb
To appeal. [A Latinism]
Invokeverb
To call on for aid or protection; to invite earnestly or solemnly; to summon; to address in prayer; to solicit or demand by invocation; to implore; as, to invoke the Supreme Being, or to invoke His and blessing.
‘Go, my dread lord, to your great grandsire's tomb, . . . Invoke his warlike spirit.’;
Provokeverb
call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses);
‘arouse pity’; ‘raise a smile’; ‘evoke sympathy’;
Invokeverb
evoke or call forth, with or as if by magic;
‘raise the specter of unemployment’; ‘he conjured wild birds in the air’; ‘stir a disturbance’; ‘call down the spirits from the mountain’;
Provokeverb
call forth;
‘Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple’;
Invokeverb
cite as an authority; resort to;
‘He invoked the law that would save him’; ‘I appealed to the law of 1900’; ‘She invoked an ancient law’;
Provokeverb
provide the needed stimulus for
Invokeverb
request earnestly (something from somebody); ask for aid or protection;
‘appeal to somebody for help’; ‘Invoke God in times of trouble’;
Provokeverb
annoy continually or chronically;
‘He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked’; ‘This man harasses his female co-workers’;
