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UNDERLYING |
Reason, ... cause |
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UNDERSTAND |
Reason, ... cause |
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CAUSELESS |
Without cause or reason. |
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ENCHEASON |
Occasion, cause, or reason. |
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SKILL |
Discrimination; judgment; propriety; reason; cause. |
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HOW |
For what reason; from what cause. |
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CAUSE |
To assign or show cause; to give a reason; to make
excuse. |
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CAUSATIVE |
Expressing a cause or reason; causal; as, the ablative
is a causative case. |
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PITY |
A reason or cause of pity, grief, or regret; a thing to be
regretted. |
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BECAUSE |
By or for the cause that; on this account that; for the
reason that. |
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PROMISE |
To afford reason to expect; to cause hope or assurance
of; as, the clouds promise rain. |
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THAT |
To introduce, a reason or cause; --
equivalent to for that, in that, for the reason that, because. |
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WHY |
For what cause, reason, or purpose; on what account;
wherefore; -- used interrogatively. See the Note under What, pron., 1. |
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SHAME |
The cause or reason of shame; that which brings reproach,
and degrades a person in the estimation of others; disgrace. |
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SPRING |
To issue or proceed, as from a parent or ancestor; to
result, as from a cause, motive, reason, or principle. |
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ACCOUNT |
To give a satisfactory reason; to tell the cause of; to
explain; -- with for; as, idleness accounts for poverty. |
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MOTIVE |
That which incites to action; anything prompting or
exciting to choise, or moving the will; cause; reason; inducement;
object. |
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GROUNDLESS |
Without ground or foundation; wanting cause or reason
for support; not authorized; false; as, groundless fear; a groundless
report or assertion. |
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GRATUITOUS |
Not called for by the circumstances; without reason,
cause, or proof; adopted or asserted without any good ground; as, a
gratuitous assumption. |
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REFER |
...ess; to
assign to, as a class, a cause, source, a motive, reason, or ground of
explanation; as, he referred the phenomena to electrical disturba... |
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OCCASION |
...s with
it some unlooked-for event; that which incidentally brings to pass an
event, without being its efficient cause or sufficient reason;
a... |
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FOR |
... action;
the motive or inducement accompanying and prompting to an act or state;
the reason of anything; that on account of which a thing is or ... |
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GLAD |
...nd sometimes by with,
introducing the cause or reason. ... |
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GROUND |
...nce: The
foundation of knowledge, belief, or conviction; a premise, reason, or
datum; ultimate or first principle; cause of existence or occurre... |
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SAKE |
Final cause; end; purpose of obtaining; cause; motive;
reason; interest; concern; account; regard or respect; -- used chiefly
in such phrases a... |