Invoke and Wish

Invoke

Invoke verb - To be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind).

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Wish and invoke are semantically related in faith topic. In some cases you can use "Wish" instead a verb "Invoke".

Nearby Words: invocation, invoking

Wish verb - To offer (something fake, useless, or inferior) as genuine, useful, or valuable.

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Invoke and wish are semantically related in desire topic. Sometimes you can use "Invoke" instead a verb "Wish", if it concerns topics such as faith.

Nearby Words: wished, wishful, wishing, wishfully, wisher

kind	invoke kind	wish kind
form	invoke form	wish form
death	invoke death	wish death
effect	invoke effect	wish effect
Other words: time, times, powers, abilities.

Exalted, having a point-buy system, allows you to build your characters any way you want, so you can invoke this trope as often as you wish.

Source: An Adventurer Is You
It's possible for a player to invoke this trope in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim if they wish.

Source: Fur Against Fang
This doesn't make them significantly harder to dodge, but it makes you wish they were shorter so as to invoke Denial of Diagonal Attack.

Source: Goddamned Bats / Mega Man

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