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Powerful Action Verbs

These action verbs will help to describe your skills and accomplishments when writing the first draft of your personal statement – use these verbs to make admission officers take notice.

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 m  —   n  o  p  q  r  s   u  v  w 


 Action Verbs beginning with A  Back to top

  • Accelerated
  • Accomplished
  • Achieved
  • Acted
  • Activated
  • Adapted
  • Addressed
  • Adjusted
  • Administered
  • Advanced
  • Advertised
  • Advised
  • Advocated
  • Aided
  • Allocated
  • Analysed
  • Answered
  • Applied
  • Appraised
  • Approved
  • Arbitrated
  • Arranged
  • Ascertained
  • Assembled
  • Assessed
  • Assigned
  • Assisted
  • Attained
  • Augmented
  • Authorised
  • Awarded

Action Verbs Beginning with B  Back to top

  • Balanced
  • Began
  • Boosted
  • Briefed
  • Budgeted
  • Built 

Action Verbs beginning with C  Back to top

  • Calculated
  • Captured
  • Catalogued
  • Centralised
  • Chaired
  • Charted
  • Checked
  • Clarified
  • Classified
  • Coached
  • Collaborated
  • Collected
  • Combined
  • Communicated
  • Compared
  • Compiled
  • Completed
  • Composed
  • Computed
  • Conceived
  • Conceptualised
  • Condensed
  • Conducted
  • Conferred
  • Conserved
  • Consolidated
  • Constructed
  • Consulted
  • Contacted
  • Continued
  • Contributed
  • Controlled
  • Converted
  • Conveyed
  • Convinced
  • Coordinated
  • Corresponded
  • Created
  • Critiqued
  • Cultivated
  • Customised 

Action Verbs beginning with D  Back to top

  • Debugged
  • Decided
  • Defined
  • Delegated
  • Delivered
  • Demonstrated
  • Designated
  • Designed
  • Detected
  • Determined
  • Developed
  • Devised
  • Diagnosed
  • Directed
  • Discovered
  • Dispensed
  • Displayed
  • Dissected
  • Distributed
  • Diverted
  • Documented
  • Drafted 

Action Verbs beginning with E  Back to top

  • Earned
  • Edited
  • Educated
  • Effected
  • Eliminated
  • Emphasised
  • Employed
  • Encouraged
  • Enforced
  • Engineered
  • Enhanced
  • Enlarged
  • Enlisted
  • Ensured
  • Entertained
  • Established
  • Estimated
  • Evaluated
  • Examined
  • Executed
  • Expanded
  • Expedited
  • Experimented
  • Explained
  • Explored
  • Expressed
  • Extended
  • Extracted 

Action Verbs beginning with F  Back to top

  • Fabricated
  • Facilitated
  • Fashioned
  • Finalised
  • Fixed
  • Fit
  • Focused
  • Forecasted
  • Formed
  • Formulated
  • Fostered
  • Found
  • Fulfilled
  • Furnished 

Action Verbs beginning with G  Back to top

  • Gained
  • Gathered
  • Generated
  • Governed
  • Grossed
  • Guided 

Action Verbs beginning with H  Back to top

  • Handled
  • Headed
  • Heightened
  • Helped
  • Hired
  • Honed
  • Hosted
  • Hypothesised 

Action Verbs beginning with I  Back to top

  • Identified
  • Illustrated
  • Imagined
  • Implemented
  • Improved
  • Improvised
  • Incorporated
  • Increased
  • Indexed
  • Influenced
  • Informed
  • Initiated
  • Innovated
  • Inspected
  • Inspired
  • Installed
  • Instituted
  • Integrated
  • Interacted
  • Interpreted
  • Interviewed
  • Introduced
  • Invented
  • Inventoried
  • Investigated
  • Involved
  • Issued 

Action Verbs beginning with J  Back to top

  • Joined
  • Judged  

Action Verbs beginning with K  Back to top

  • Kept

Action Verbs beginning with L Back to top

  • Launched
  • Learned
  • Led
  • Lifted
  • Listened
  • Located
  • Logged
  • Lectured

Action Verbs beginning with M  Back to top

  • Maintained
  • Managed
  • Manipulated
  • Marketed
  • Maximised
  • Measured
  • Mediated
  • Merged
  • Mobilised
  • Modified
  • Monitored
  • Motivated

Action Verbs beginning with N  Back to top

  • Navigated
  • Negotiated
  • Netted

Action Verbs beginning with O  Back to top

  • Observed
  • Obtained
  • Opened
  • Operated
  • Ordered
  • Orchestrated
  • Organised
  • Originated
  • Outlined
  • Overcame
  • Overhauled
  • Oversaw

Action Verbs beginning with P  Back to top

  • Participated
  • Performed
  • Persuaded
  • Photographed
  • Pinpointed
  • Piloted
  • Pioneered
  • Placed
  • Planned
  • Played
  • Predicted
  • Prepared
  • Prescribed
  • Presented
  • Presided
  • Prevented
  • Printed
  • Prioritised
  • Processed
  • Produced
  • Programmed
  • Projected
  • Promoted
  • Proofread
  • Proposed
  • Protected
  • Proved
  • Provided
  • Publicised
  • Purchased

Action Verbs beginning with Q  Back to top

  • Qualified
  • Questioned

Action Verbs beginning with R  Back to top

  • Raised
  • Ran
  • Rated
  • Reached
  • Realised
  • Reasoned
  • Received
  • Recommended
  • Reconciled
  • Recorded
  • Recruited
  • Reduced
  • Referred
  • Regulated
  • Rehabilitated
  • Related
  • Remodelled
  • Rendered
  • Reorganised
  • Repaired
  • Replaced
  • Reported
  • Represented
  • Researched
  • Reshaped
  • Resolved
  • Responded
  • Restored
  • Retrieved
  • Reviewed
  • Revised
  • Revitalised
  • Routed

Action Verbs beginning with S  Back to top

  •  Saved
  • Scheduled
  • Screened
  • Searched
  • Secured
  • Selected
  • Separated
  • Served
  • Shaped
  • Shared
  • Simplified
  • Simulated
  • Sketched
  • Sold
  • Solved
  • Sorted
  • Spearheaded
  • Specialised
  • Specified
  • Spoke
  • Sponsored
  • Staffed
  • Standardised
  • Started
  • Streamlined
  • Strengthened
  • Structured
  • Studied
  • Suggested
  • Summarised
  • Supervised
  • Supplied
  • Supported
  • Surpassed
  • Surveyed
  • Sustained
  • Synthesised
  • Systematised

Action Verbs beginning with T  Back to top

  • Targeted
  • Taught
  • Terminated
  • Tested
  • Tightened
  • Totalled
  • Tracked
  • Traded
  • Trained
  • Transcribed
  • Transformed
  • Transmitted
  • Translated
  • Travelled
  • Tutored

Action Verbs beginning with U  Back to top

  • Uncovered
  • Undertook
  • Unified
  • United
  • Updated
  • Upgraded
  • Used
  • Utilised

Action Verbs beginning with V  Back to top

  • Validated
  • Verbalised
  • Verified
  • Vitalised
  • Volunteered

Action Verbs beginning with W  Back to top

  • Weighed
  • Widened
  • Won
  • Worked
  • Wrote

 




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