Cause and Undertake

Cause

Cause verb - To be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind).

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Undertake and cause are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Undertake" instead a verb "Cause".

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

Undertake verb - To take to or upon oneself.

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Cause and undertake are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cause" instead a verb "Undertake".

attack	cause attack	undertake attack
sort	cause sort	undertake sort
death	cause death	undertake death
destruction	cause destruction	undertake destruction
Other words: game, sorts, changes.

There are a lot of quests you can undertake, and some have a strict time limit which will cause them to be automatically canceled if you finish too many plot-related quests.

Source: Video Game / Dragon's Dogma
A sidekick or other people begin "motivating" them, sometimes in song, by thanking them for the dangerous task they are about to undertake, which may cause their deaths, describing To the Pain what the hero might suffer and — really, it would be better if the hero hadn't heard this speech at all.

Source: Go Ye Heroes, Go and Die

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