| query | If someone i______ a god, they ask the god for help or forgiveness .If someone invokes a god, they ask the god for help or forgiveness . The great magicians of old always invoked their gods with sacrifice. |
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| word | invoke |
| full-definition | verb If you invoke a law, you state that you are taking a particular action because that law allows or tells you to. The judge invoked an international law that protects refugees. If you invoke something such as a principle, a saying, or a famous person, you refer to them in order to support your argument . He invoked memories of Britain's near-disastrous disarmament in the 1930s. If something such as a piece of music invokes a feeling or an image, it causes someone to have the feeling or to see the image. Many people consider this use to be incorrect . The music invoked the wide open spaces of the prairies. If someone invokes a god, they ask the god for help or forgiveness . The great magicians of old always invoked their gods with sacrifice. |
| inflections | invokesinvokinginvoked |
| cefr-level | C1 |
Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:c1
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