Effect and Resolve

Effect

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

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

Resolve verb - To come to a judgment about after discussion or consideration.

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Effect and resolve are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Effect" instead a verb "Resolve".

good	good effect	good resolve
complete	complete effect	complete resolve
original	original effect	original resolve
great	great effect	great resolve
Other adjectives: little, useful.

You may want to hold off adding Slifer the Sky Dragon to your deck, because if you summon him, when that auto-scan goes off, it will find Slifer, notify you of his effect and resolve it, even if there's nothing new about the state of said effect.

Source: Videogame / Yu-Gi-Oh! Reshef of Destruction
The problem is that the timing rules can and will block you from activating the effect at that time, because something else needs to resolve first.

Source: Scrappy Mechanic / Tabletop Games
Also, the unintentional effect the SI had upon Motoko's mental state in the first Love Hina arc, which he has to personally resolve in the second.

Source: Fanfic / Sleeping with the Girls

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