List of Strong Verbs

Accomplish: to achieve a goal or task

Accumulate: to gather or collect over time

Adapt: to adjust to new conditions

Address: to direct attention to

Advise: to offer recommendations

Allocate: to distribute resources or duties

Analyze: to examine in detail

Anticipate: to foresee and act in advance

Appraise: to evaluate the worth of

Approve: to give consent or agreement

Articulate: to express clearly

Ascertain: to find out with certainty

Assemble: to bring together

Assess: to evaluate or estimate the nature of

Assist: to help or support

Audit: to conduct an official inspection

Augment: to increase or make larger

Authorize: to give official permission

Automate: to implement automatic procedures

Avoid: to keep away from

Balance: to keep or put something in a steady position

Benchmark: to measure against a standard

Boost: to enhance or increase

Brainstorm: to generate ideas

Broaden: to expand or make more inclusive

Budget: to plan expenditure

Build: to construct or develop

Calculate: to determine mathematically

Calculate: to determine mathematically

Capture: to take possession or control

Centralize: to bring under a single control

Certify: to confirm or attest

Clarify: to make clear or understandable

Classify: to arrange in categories

Coach: to train or instruct

Collaborate: to work together

Combine: to bring together

Communicate: to share or exchange information

Compare: to estimate similarities or differences

Compensate: to make up for something

Compile: to collect information from different sources

Complete: to finish making or doing

Comply: to act in accordance with rules or standards

Compose: to create or write

Compute: to calculate or reckon a figure

Conceive: to form an idea or plan

Conduct: to organize and carry out

Confirm: to establish the truth or correctness

Consolidate: to combine into a single entity

Delegate: to assign responsibility or authority

Deliver: to bring and hand over

Demonstrate: to show clearly

Design: to create a plan or drawing

Designate: to assign a name or role

Detect: to discover or identify the presence of

Determine: to ascertain or establish exactly

Develop: to grow or cause to grow

Devise: to plan or invent

Differentiate: to recognize what makes different

Direct: to manage or control

Distribute: to deliver to multiple recipients

Document: to record in detail

Draft: to prepare a preliminary version

Eliminate: to remove or get rid of

Emphasize: to give special importance to

Empower: to give power or authority

Enable: to make possible

Encourage: to give support or confidence

Endorse: to support publicly

Engage: to attract or involve

Enhance: to improve the quality of

Enlist: to engage the support of

Ensure: to make certain of

Establish: to set up on a firm basis

Estimate: to roughly calculate or judge

Evaluate: to assess the value or significance

Examine: to inspect thoroughly

Exceed: to go beyond what is allowed or stipulated

Expand: to increase in size, number, or importance

Expedite: to make happen sooner or be accomplished more quickly

Explore: to examine or investigate

Extend: to cause to cover a larger area

Extract: to remove or take out

Facilitate: to make an action or process easier

Finalize: to complete the details of

Forecast: to predict future events

Forecast: to predict or estimate

Formulate: to create or devise methodically

Foster: to encourage the development of

Fulfill: to complete or achieve

Gauge: to measure or assess

Generate: to produce or create

Govern: to conduct policy and affairs

Guide: to lead or direct

Handle: to manage or deal with

Harmonize: to bring into agreement

Highlight: to emphasize or make prominent

Hypothesize: to propose an explanation

Identify: to establish or indicate who or what

Illustrate: to clarify by giving an example

Implement: to put into action

Improve: to make better

Incorporate: to include as part of a whole

Increase: to make larger or greater

Influence: to have an effect on

Innovate: to introduce new ideas

Integrate: to combine with another

Interpret: to explain the meaning of

Investigate: to carry out research

Justify: to show or prove to be right

Launch: to start or set in motion

Lead: to guide or direct

Leverage: to use to maximum advantage

Locate: to find the position of

Manage: to be in charge of

Measure: to ascertain the size, amount, or degree

Mediate: to intervene to resolve differences

Modify: to change slightly

Motivate: to provide incentive

Navigate: to plan and direct

Negotiate: to discuss in order to reach an agreement

Observe: to watch carefully

Obtain: to acquire

Operate: to control the functioning of

Optimize: to make the best use of

Organize: to arrange systematically

Oversee: to supervise

Participate: to take part in

Perform: to carry out

Persuade: to convince

Plan: to devise a method

Predict: to say what will happen in the future

Prepare: to make ready

Present: to show or offer

Process: to perform a series of actions

Produce: to make or manufacture

Promote: to support or actively encourage

Propose: to put forward an idea

Provide: to make available

Publish: to prepare and issue for public sale

Purchase: to acquire by paying for

Recommend: to suggest as suitable

Recruit: to enlist

Reduce: to make smaller

Refine: to improve by making small changes

Reinforce: to strengthen

Resolve: to settle or find a solution

Review: to assess critically

Revise: to re-examine and make changes to

Schedule: to arrange to take place at a particular time

Select: to choose

Simplify: to make easier

Solve: to find an answer to

Strategize: to plan a strategy

Strengthen: to make stronger

Supervise: to oversee

Support: to give assistance to

Test: to take measures to check

Train: to develop skills

Transform: to change significantly

Translate: to express in another language

Understand: to grasp the meaning

Undertake: to commit oneself to

Unify: to bring together as one

Update: to bring up to date

Upgrade: to raise to a higher standard

Utilize: to make use of

Validate: to check the validity of

Value: to estimate the worth

Verify: to confirm the truth

Work: to be engaged in physical or mental activity

Write: to compose text

X-ray: to examine closely

Zoom: to move or travel quickly