elicit from

elicit something from someone

to obtain information from someone. I hoped to elicit a statement from the mayor, but I could not reach her. Larry was not able to elicit anything new from Jane.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Christelle	krees-TEL	French
Laws	[lɔ:z]
Bojana	-	Slovene, Macedonian, Serbian, Croatian
Carson	['ka:sn]
Krishna	KRISH-na (Hinduism)	Hinduism, Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Nepali
Thulile	-	Southern African, Zulu