Effect and Justify

Effect

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

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Justify and effect are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Justify" instead a verb "Effect".

Justify verb - To be an acceptable reason for.

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Effect and justify are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Effect" instead a verb "Justify".

ability	effect ability	justify ability
life	effect life	justify life
action	effect action	justify action
change	effect change	justify change
Other words: status, relationship, way, actions, times.

You automatically eject in BattleTech: Firestorm (with an interesting wormhole effect), presumably due to the younger audience that the game is intended for and to justify the respawns.

Source: Video Game / MechWarrior
Authors like to use this type of magic because it is easy to justify whatever magical effect they need to happen for the story.

Source: Literature / Dragonlance
Fentible tries to justify this in the intro, saying that because Titania was dismantled, the side effect made all of the robots unable to figure out the problems on board the ship.

Source: Video Game / Starship Titanic

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