Vocabulary Word
Word: elicit
Definition: draw out fact or information (by discussion or from someone)
Definition: draw out fact or information (by discussion or from someone)
Sentences Containing 'elicit'
Up the broad flight of shallow steps, Monsieur the Marquis, flambeau preceded, went from his carriage, sufficiently disturbing the darkness to elicit loud remonstrance from an owl in the roof of the great pile of stable building away among the trees.
His indifference to fire was sufficiently remarkable to elicit a word of remonstrance from Mr. Lorry; his boot was still upon the hot embers of the flaming log, when it had broken under the weight of his foot.
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