Difference between Elicit and Provoke

ELICIT vs PROVOKE: ADJECTIVE

Deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)
Derive by reason
To evoke, educe (emotions, feelings, responses, etc.); to generate, obtain, or provoke as a response or answer.
To draw out, bring out, bring forth (something latent); to obtain information from someone or something.
To use logic to arrive at truth; to derive by reason; deduce; construe.
Call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)

To call forth, draw out, or provoke (a response or reaction, for example): : evoke.
To draw out or entice forth; to bring to light; to bring out against the will; to deduce by reason or argument.

To incite to anger or resentment.
To stir to action or feeling.
To give rise to; bring about.
To bring about deliberately; induce.
To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite, as a person, to action by a challenge, by taunts, or by defiance; to exasperate; to irritate; to offend intolerably; to cause to retaliate.

To draw out; bring forth or to light; evolve; gain: as, to elicit sparks by collision; to elicit truth by discussion; to elicit approval.
Performed by the will itself without the aid of any other faculty: as, volition, nolition, choice, consent, and the like are elicit acts: opposed to imperate.
Immediately directed to an end: opposed to imperate.

Derive, Generate, Induce, Garner, Engender, Draw out, Fire, Raise, Enkindle, Kindle, Educe, Extract, Arouse, Provoke, Evoke

Kick up, Hassle, Plague, Fire, Beset, Molest, Chivvy, Raise, Harass, Kindle, Stimulate, Enkindle, Evoke, Elicit, Arouse

Solicit, Prompt, Derive, Generate, Induce, Engender, Draw out, Fire, Raise, Enkindle, Kindle, Extract, Arouse, Provoke, Evoke

Harry, Hassle, Plague, Fire, Beset, Molest, Chivvy, Raise, Harass, Kindle, Stimulate, Enkindle, Evoke, Elicit, Arouse

Perhaps the article will elicit some new clues.
Chitin oligosaccharides elicit lignification in wounded wheat leaves.
Child Anxiety Disorders exercise to elicit the symptom.
Elicit community and organizational support for recreation programs.
Elicit from students statements of fact and opinion.
Elicit that the bullying is likely to continue.
Negative statements often elicit a negative reaction, while positive statements often elicit a positive response.
CS has come to elicit a CR, a similar test stimulus is found to elicit the same CR.
Some existing evidence suggests that differences exist between the way that negative actions elicit blame and positive actions elicit praise.
To act in a way that is likely to elicit attention, usually to elicit validation from others.