effect
ih-FEKTnounMeaning a result; a change that something causes
Memory hook E is for END: the EFFECT comes last. Zoe waters her bean plant every day for a month. The end result, a plant taller than she is, is the effect of all that care.
The new streetlights had a clear effect: far fewer people tripped on the dark corner.
In context Planting trees along the street had a surprising effect; the block grew cooler in summer, and more neighbors came out to sit on their porches.
Similar result, outcome, consequence, impact
Opposite cause
From Latin effectus, “a result,” from efficere, “to bring about, to work out”: ex (out) + facere (to do).