Cause and Premise

Cause

Cause noun - Someone or something responsible for a result.

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Premise and cause are semantically related in basis topic. In some cases you can use "Premise" instead a noun "Cause", when it comes to topics like reason.

Nearby Words: caused, causation, causeless, causative, causal

Premise

Premise noun - Something taken as being true or factual and used as a starting point for a course of action or reasoning.

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Cause and premise are semantically related in reason topic. Sometimes you can use "Cause" instead a noun "Premise".

Nearby Words: premiss, premised, premising

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How words are described

good	good cause	good premise
exact	exact cause	exact premise
usual	usual cause	usual premise
common	common cause	common premise
Other adjectives: original, initial, true, actual, entire, real, great, huge, false, main, key, supernatural, new, major, sole, different, underlying.

Both words in one sentence

This trope is the basic premise of the Terminator movies (even though side effects cause some ontological paradoxes).

Source: Wayback Trip
The main premise of the series involves a pathogen called the virus attempting to turn living organism into rampaging monsters designed to cause chaos.

Source: The Plague
The entire premise of United States of Tara—she went off her meds to discover the cause of her DID.

Source: No Medication for Me

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