Educes

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To draw out or bring forth a reaction or response
2. To elicit information or an emotion from someone through questioning or prompting
3. To cause something to become evident or manifest as a result of specific actions or stimuli

Etymology: "Educes" is the third-person singular form of "educe," a verb meaning to draw out or bring forth something latent, such as a reaction or response. The verb was borrowed directly from Latin "ēdūcere," meaning "lead out" or "raise up." That Latin verb combines "ex-," meaning "out" or "up," with "dūcere," meaning "to lead" or "to pull," the same root that gives English words like "conduct," "produce," and "duke." The Latin root "dūcere" appears in a family of English words that share its basic image of leading or pulling. Its close relative "educate," from the Latin "ēducāre," shows how the idea of drawing something out of a person gradually became a matter of cultivating the mind. "Educe" kept the older, more literal sense of drawing something forth, and in its modern use it usually describes an effect that is pulled out of a situation or a person.

Synonyms: draws out, elicits, extracts, derives, infers

Antonyms: suppresses, conceals, hides, withholds, ignores