conjure

eg: That smell always conjures up memories of holidays in France.
 * Word:** conjure
 * Context sentence:** The image conjured up by this sentence is idiomatic expressions that render the idea of prevarication, and so in the process of interlingual translation one idiom is substituted for another.
 * Source:** Susan, Bassnett //Translation Studies Third edition// Taylor and Francis Group
 * Definition:** to make something appear as a picture in your mind
 * Noun:** conjuring

=Here are some more sentences with conjure up - see the kind of items that can be objects of this verb.=

His design had to reveal the pattern and phrasing of __the dream world__ he wished to **conjure up**.

He strained to **conjure up** __her face and her voice__, but they had vanished, as completely as though the memory had been cut out of his brain.

The very words `sheltered housing' **conjure up** __an image of elderly people who need protection__.

When searching for the right adjective, bear in mind that your effect on the reader will be stronger if you can create physical sensation, if you can make the reader **conjure up** __a colour, a texture, a smell or a sound__, rather than using a word like `soothing', or `lovely' or (worst of all) `evocative' Large white daisies for me **conjure up** __thoughts of warm summer meadows__, __the scent of freshly cut hay and the buzzing of busy insects__. The little room seemed to **conjure up** __a scene from the past__, an almost timeless memory. The imagery and language help **conjure up** __the bleak picture of death__ in the two poems.