eliciting
Coaxing a response
Eliciting is drawing something out—a response, information, or reaction that wouldn't emerge on its own.
A lawyer elicits testimony through careful questioning.
A comedian elicits laughter.
The word implies skill or effort in bringing forth what's latent: Her comments elicited strong reactions from the audience.
Extracting or prolonging
- promptingGiving reminders to continue
- triggeringCausing to activate
- inducingCausing or bringing about
- arousingEvoking strong feeling
provoking · summoning · coaxing · extracting · bringing forth · calling forth · conjuring · awakening
Inciting through persistent pressure
- baitingDeliberately trying to provoke
- needlingPersistent mild taunting
- tauntingInsulting to provoke
- antagonizingDeliberately causing hostility
prodding · agitating · irritating · aggravating · incensing · riling · inflaming · challenging
Seeking answers through inquiry
- interviewingFormal questioning session
- probingThoroughly investigating something
- interrogatingFormally demanding answers
- surveyingMeasuring and charting terrain
polling · querying · examining · investigating · soliciting · canvassing · debriefing · cross-examining
Returned response data
- reactionResponse to stimulus
- answerSolution to query
- replyVerbal or written answer
- responseAnswer to stimulus
acknowledgment · input · comment · disclosure · confession · admission · revelation · testimony
drawing out
Extracting or prolonging
- promptingGiving reminders to continue
- triggeringCausing to activate
- inducingCausing or bringing about
arousing · provoking · summoning · coaxing · extracting · bringing forth · calling forth · conjuring · awakening · stirring
goading
Inciting through persistent pressure
antagonizing · prodding · agitating · irritating · aggravating · incensing · riling · inflaming · challenging · confronting
questioning
Seeking answers through inquiry
- interviewingFormal questioning session
- probingThoroughly investigating something
- interrogatingFormally demanding answers
surveying · polling · querying · examining · investigating · soliciting · canvassing · debriefing · cross-examining · fact-finding
feedback
Returned response data
response · acknowledgment · input · comment · disclosure · confession · admission · revelation · testimony · statement
feelings
Emotional responses experienced internally
- emotionsPsychological feeling states
- sympathyCompassionate understanding of others
- empathySharing another's emotions
laughter · tears · smiles · anger · fear · joy · nostalgia · memories · sentiment · passion
- teachingteaching, lesson plans, instructing, educating, courses
- classroomdesk, desks, chair, chairs, teacher
- extractingmining, drilling, juicing, pulling, yanking
- showingshow, displaying, display, exhibiting, demonstrate
- incitementinciting, instigating, provoking, incitement, instigation
elicitingsuppressing
Forcibly restraining or inhibiting
concealing · withholding · hiding · stifling · covering
elicitingsuppressing
Forcibly restraining or inhibiting
inhibiting · preventing · blocking · quashing · dampening
elicitingvolunteering
Giving service without pay
offering · providing · disclosing · divulging · confiding