1. (verb)provoke, evoke, call forth, kick up evoke or provoke to appear or occur "Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple"
2. (verb)raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke, evoke, stir, call down, arouse, bring up, put forward, call forth summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the air"; "call down the spirits from the mountain"