Name: Academic Vocabulary for Essays & IELTS Writing: 15 cause and effect POWER VERBS
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Thanks for clicking, and welcome to
this lesson on cause and effect verbs.

In this lesson, you will learn some advanced
vocabulary, specifically verbs, that you can

use in your high school or university essays;
or if you are an English student who is taking

the IELTS or the TOEFL, you can use these
verbs to really level up your writing in your

Now, if you are a writer of another sort;
if you are an essayist, a fiction writer,

a non-fiction writer, or you want to be a
writer in the future - it never hurts to have

more vocabulary, to have more
power verbs in your arsenal.

So, what we're going to do today is improve
your vocabulary for your writing and really

So, I'm going to put this down, and
let's start looking at some verbs.

Specifically, we are going to
look at some effect verbs first.

So, when you think of "effect", you
think of the result of something.

So, we have the verbs: "cause", "produce";
and we have verb phrases, like: "lead to",

"result in"; and we have: "create", "bring about",
"give rise to", and "be responsible for".

So, these are all formal verbs, and these will
definitely formalize your writing; specifically

So: "The 2008 financial crisis caused
several problems for multinational banks."

So, this crisis caused
these things to happen.

"The medication did not
produce the desired effect."

So, the medication was supposed to
numb the pain, but it didn't do this.

So, again, "to produce", think of it in the
same family of words as: "cause", "produce",

and "create", which we'll
see a little bit later on.

So, if something leads to something else, this
means that it causes the next step to happen.

So, for example: "Several international
incidents led to World War II."

So, we're talking about international events,
international incidents that led to - gave

So, if something leads to something else, you
know, you do this thing which causes this

One thing leads to or
causes another thing.

"Result in" - very
straightforward, I think.

So, "result in": "The earthquake
resulted in thousands of deaths."

The effect of the earthquake;
the result of the earthquake.

So: "The earthquake resulted
in thousands of deaths."

Later we'll look at "a result of", so that
will be for cause; but for effect, you can

I think everyone is familiar
with the verb "create".

"The increasing rate of crime is creating
numerous issues", numerous problems.

So, it's making problems, creating
problems, causing problems.

So, the effect is that there are
numerous problems now because of this.

So, if something brings about something else,
it kind of brings it-right?-into effect.

So: "The new regime"-the new political party, the
new political regime-"brought about stricter

So, imagine there was an election and there
is a new political regime, and with them they

are bringing new laws, so they brought about
new laws; they caused new laws to happen.

The effect of the political
regime are these stricter laws.

If something gives rise to something else,
it means that the initial cause creates the

conditions necessary for
the effect to happen.

So: "The election result gave
rise to public protests."

So, we have the election result, and: Uh-oh,
now the condition is instability in the public

because maybe the public is not happy
with the results of the election.

So, it creates the necessary
conditions for the public protests.

So, the election gave rise to; allowed the
political protests to happen, the public protests

I think this one is self-explanatory, so,
here we go: "No one knows who was responsible

So, no one knows who did the vandalism; the,
basically graffiti, maybe around the bank

You can talk about, you know, these effects and
these effect verbs in a variety of contexts.

So, here you have stuff like World War II,
the economic crisis, rising rates of crime,

So, these are probably the types of topics you
will see if you are writing a high school

essay, or if you're writing
a university essay.

Even if you're not, somewhere in your essay
you're probably going to talk about something

that caused something else, or you're going
to talk about the effect of one action and

So, these verbs will help you
to talk about that reaction.

So, now, let's look at some other verbs that you
can use to talk about the causes of things.

So, I'm going to walk
to the other board.

Okay, so here we go
with the cause verbs.

Now, if you notice, some of these are similar
to the effect verbs, but they are the effect

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Academic Vocabulary for Essays & IELTS Writing: 15 cause and effect POWER VERBS

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