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What's a better word for "evoke" in the phrase "evoke a realization"?

The context is a technical article about a catch-all module, and the wording is:

"A glance at the feature set <evokes> the unsettling realization that this module was used as a singular dumping ground for all kinds of varying features"

Evoke doesn't capture the meaning, something more like inspires, conjures, can't quite get it. And what process do people use to determine these things?

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One option is the verb prompt. Here is the relevant entry in Merriam-Webster's Eleventh Collegiate Dictionary (2003):

prompt vt 1 : to move to action : INCITE 2 : to assist (one acting or reciting) by suggesting or saying the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned: CUE 3 : to serve as the inciting cause of {evidence prompting an investigation}

The third definition here has the meaning you're looking for, I think.

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