Today's word is:
Whatever your cause, whether it's helping those in need or writing, you may be surprised by the number of options you have.
Depending on how you use it, this list may come in handy for finding another way to say the same thing.
accomplish, account, achieve, act, action, activity, advance,
agent, agency, aid, aim, alms, alpha and omega, ambition, antecedent, aspiration,
attempt, author
base, basis, be all and end all, bear, beget, begin/beginning,
belief, be productive, bind, breed, bring, bring about, bring forth, bring into
being, bring on, bring to effect, bring to fruition, bring to pass
call, call forth, call up, calling, campaign, case, catalyst/catalyze,
cause in court, cause to, causality/causation, charitable/charity, class
action, collection box, committal, commitment, community chest, community
service, compel, conceive, concern, consideration, conduce (to), constrain, contribute
(to), contributor, conviction, court, court-martial, create, creator, crusade, culprit,
cultivate,
decide, determine, determinant, develop, dispute, dissent, do/doer,
donate, draw on, drive
effect, effectuate, element, elicit, enact, encourage, end, enforce,
engender, engineer, enkindle, enterprise, establish, evoke, execute, excuse,
explanation
factor, faith, father, force, forward, foster, found, foundation,
fountainhead, further
generate, generator, genesis, gestate, get up, give birth
to, give occasion to, give origin to, give rise to, goad, goal, good reason,
great cause, ground(s), guiding light, guiding star
hatch, have
ideal, impel, impetus, impulse, inaugurate, incentive,
incite/incitement, induce/inducement, industrialize, influence, initiate, innovate, inspire/inspiration,
instigation, institute, intention, interest, introduce, invoke, issue
judicial process, justification
launch, lawsuit, lead to, leaven, legal action, legal case,
legal proceedings, legal process, legal remedy, lifework, litigation, lodestar
mainspring, make/maker, mass movement, mass-produce, material
basis, matter, mission, mother, motivate, motivation, motive, movement, muster
up
need, necessity, nourish, nurture
object, objective, obligation, occasion, origin, originate,
originator, overproduce
perform, pioneer, precipitate, pretext, prime mover, principle,
proceedings, produce/producer, promote, prompt, prosecution, provoke, purpose
realize, reason, reason for being, render, restrain, result
in, right, root
sake, score, secure, set, set afloat, set on foot, set up, sire,
source, spawn, spring, start, stimulation/stimulus, substance, suit, suit at
law, summon up
the why and the wherefore, tie, translate (into), trigger,
turn out
ulterior motive, undertaking, use force upon
vocation, volume-produce
warrant, work, work up
yield
We are all familiar with cause and effect. But is it real? Is there truly such as thing as cause and effect or is it all illusion?What do you think?
