Alvernia College - Career Services

Sample Action Words
accelerate	accomplish	achieve	acquire
act	activate	adapt	address
adjust	administer	advise	aid
allocate	alter	amplify	analyze
answer	anticipate	appoint	appraise
approve	arbitrate	arrange	ascertain
assemble	assess	audit	augment
avert	avoid	award	bought
broaden	built	calculate	capture
catalog	centralize	chart	check
classify	coach	collaborate	collect
combine	communicate	compared	compile
complete	compose	compute	conceive
conceptualize	conclude	condense	conduct
conserve	consolidate	construct	consult
contrive	control	cooperate	coordinate
correspond	counsel	create	cultivate
decentralize	decide	decrease	define
delegate	deliver	demonstrate	derive
design	detail	detect	determine
develop	devise	devote	diagnose
diagram	direct	discover	dispense
display	disprove	dissect	distribute
divert	document	double	dramatize
edit	effect	eliminate	empathize
employ	encourage	enforce	engineer
establish	estimate	evaluate	examine
execute	expand	expedite	explain
express	extend	extract	fabricate
file	finance	focus	forecast
form	formulate	fortify	found
frame	gather	generate	guide
handle	heighten	hire	hypothesize
identify	illustrate	imagine	implement
improve	improvise	incorporate	increase
influence	inform	initiate	innovate
inspect	inspire	install	instigate
institute	instruct	insure	integrate
interpret	interview	introduce	invest
investigate	judge	launch	lead
lecture	lighten	liquidate	list
listen	localize	locate	log
maintain	manage	manipulate	market
master	mediate	memorize	mentor
minimize	model	modernize	modify
monitor	motivate	navigate	negotiate
observe	obtain	offer	operate
order	organize	orient	originate
overhaul	participate	perceive	perform
persuade	pilot	pinpoint	pioneer
plan	predict	prepare	prescribe
present	preserve	prevent	process
procure	produce	program	project
promote	proofread	propose	protect
prove	provide	publicize	publish
purchase	qualify	question	raise
realize	reason	receive	recommend
reconcile	record	recruit	redesign
reduce	refer	regulate	rehabilitate
rehearse	reinforce	reject	relate
remember	render	renegotiate	reorganize
repair	report	represent	research
reshape	resolve	respond	restore
retrieve	revamp	review	revise
revitalize	risk	save	schedule
seek	select	sell	separate
settle	shape	share	simplify
sketch	solve	sort	speak
specialize	specify	staff	standardize
stimulate	streamline	structure	study
substitute	suggest	summarize	supervise
supply	support	surpass	survey
symbolize	synthesize	systematize	teach
tend	terminate	test	theorize
tighten	trade	train	transcribe
translate	treat	tutor	understand
undertake	unify	unite	upgrade
utilize	verbalize	verify	volunteer
weigh	widen	write

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Sample Action Words