Word of the Day: Cause
cause / ˈkȯz
noun
1. a reason or motive
He never was a friend who ceased to be so for a slight cause.
Portuguese Proverb
2. something that brings about a result
Charity looks at the need and not the cause.
German Proverb
3. a person or thing that produces or occasions an event
All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.
Latin Proverb
4. in law, a ground for legal action
It’s an ill cause that a lawyer thinks shame of.
Scottish Proverb
5. a matter to be resolved
And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.
Exodus 18:26, King James Bible
6. a movement that is supported
The best cause requires a good champion.
Dutch Proverb
7. a charitable movement
The idea of kids helping other kids is such a great way to introduce children to being involved in charitable causes and volunteer work, setting them on the path to doing good for others throughout their lives.
Brandy Norwood, 1979-
verb
1. to bring about or produce a result
Anger is always more harmful than the insult that caused it.
Chinese Proverb
Thank you for including the Dictionary Project in the good work you do in your club. In my club, we have provided Dictionaries for third-grade students for enough years that now we are having former students help us to present dictionaries each year. They are often returning to the same classrooms that they were third-grade students. Teachers plead every year for us to NEVER quit this valuable project. They tell us that students NEED paper books to learn to read, to learn to do research and to do independent study. Please send me pictures of your presentations and tell me about your visits to the schools to give dictionaries to the students. To be included in our newsletter you can send me your stories at DG.2019@5630mail.org.
