INVOKE vs EVOKE

 In Oxford dictionary, you find invoke and evoke are synonymous. Both words can be used for each other, but in deep meaning both words have its own usages.
Let's see more about its meaning and usage.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
INVOKE (V)
Meaning:-
  • to use a law, rule, etc. as a reason for doing something
  • to call a person, a theory, an example, etc. to support your opinions or ideas, or as a reason for something
  • to make a request to somebody, especially a god or ghost   

Etymology:-
Word Invoke comes from Latin invocare, in means 'upon' + vocare means means "to call'. To call in or call upon something or somebody is invoke.
Usages:-
  1. Priests invoke Gods.
  2. Obama has periodically invoked inequality as a problem and promised to address it.
  3. Invoking Mandeal's name or his image risked severe retribution.
  4. The government has invoked the internal Security Act.
                                                                                 

EVOKE  (V)
Meaning:-
  • to bring a feeling, a memory or an image into your mind                                                                                                    
Etymology:-
Word Evoke comes from Latin evocare, from the prefix e i.e. ex means out and vocare means to call, here call means memory. To bring out some feeling from the memory is to evoke.
Usages:-
  1. My old home evokes about my childhood.
  2. The actor's ability to evoke a variety of emotions.
  3. Products that help evoke an old-fashioned mood.
  4. The novel vividly evokes the like of the Irish in Australia.

Mind Tricks:-
Invoke and Evoke-  Voke, which is vocare in Latin that means to call or memory, as suffix in both words. "In" as prefix that means upon or in, 'to call in or upon (a law, god, ghost, a name, a person) is to invoke'. "E" (ex) as prefix means to out of or from, to bring out something or feeling from your memory is called evoke. 

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