100 High-Impact Verbs for Action-Takers

No.	Term	Definition
1.	Accelerate	To increase the speed and scope of projects.
2.	Achieve	To successfully reach an objective through effort.
3.	Administer	To manage and direct a program or organization.
4.	Advance	To move a project or cause forward purposefully.
5.	Advocate	To publicly recommend or support a specific cause.
6.	Amplify	To increase the scale, volume, or impact.
7.	Analyze	To examine data or information in detail.
8.	Architect	To design and structure a complex system.
9.	Articulate	To express complex ideas clearly and effectively.
10.	Assess	To evaluate the nature, quality, or ability.
11.	Attain	To succeed in achieving a difficult goal.
12.	Audit	To officially inspect accounts or organizational procedures.
13.	Augment	To make something greater by adding to it.
14.	Author	To originate or create a plan or document.
15.	Bolster	To support, strengthen, or prop something up.
16.	Brand	To create a distinctive identity for a product.
17.	Build	To construct by putting parts or materials together.
18.	Capitalize	To use a situation to gain an advantage.
19.	Catalyze	To cause or accelerate a significant action.
20.	Champion	To vigorously support or defend a chosen cause.
21.	Clarify	To make a situation or statement less confused.
22.	Collaborate	To work jointly on an activity or project.
23.	Command	To have authority and control over a group.
24.	Conceptualize	To form a concept or an idea of.
25.	Consolidate	To combine things into a more effective whole.
26.	Construct	To build or erect something from scratch.
27.	Consult	To seek expert information or professional advice.
28.	Coordinate	To organize elements to work together efficiently.
29.	Create	To bring something into existence; to originate.
30.	Critique	To evaluate a theory or practice analytically.
31.	Cultivate	To develop a skill, quality, or relationship.
32.	Customize	To modify something for a particular task.
33.	Delegate	To entrust a task or responsibility to another.
34.	Deliver	To produce the promised or expected result.
35.	Demonstrate	To show the truth by providing proof.
36.	Design	To conceive and plan out in detail.
37.	Develop	To grow something to be more advanced.
38.	Devise	To plan or invent a complex procedure.
39.	Diagnose	To identify the nature of a problem.
40.	Direct	To manage or guide project or team operations.
41.	Drive	To propel and provide impetus for a project.
42.	Elevate	To raise to a more important or impressive level.
43.	Empower	To give someone authority or power to act.
44.	Engineer	To skillfully arrange for something to occur.
45.	Enhance	To intensify or further improve the quality.
46.	Envision	To imagine a future possibility; to visualize.
47.	Establish	To set up on a firm or permanent basis.
48.	Evaluate	To form an idea of the value of.
49.	Exceed	To go beyond what is prescribed; to surpass.
50.	Execute	To carry out or complete a plan.
51.	Expand	To become or make larger or more extensive.
52.	Expedite	To make a process happen more quickly.
53.	Facilitate	To make an action or process easier.
54.	Forge	To create a strong and lasting relationship.
55.	Formulate	To create a strategy or proposal methodically.
56.	Foster	To encourage the development of something desirable.
57.	Galvanize	To shock or excite someone into action.
58.	Generate	To produce or create revenue, ideas, or results.
59.	Guide	To show the way; to direct or advise.
60.	Harness	To control and make use of resources.
61.	Identify	To establish or indicate what something is.
62.	Implement	To put a decision or plan into effect.
63.	Inaugurate	To begin or introduce a new system.
64.	Influence	To affect the character or behavior of.
65.	Innovate	To introduce new methods, ideas, or products.
66.	Inspire	To fill someone with the urge to act.
67.	Institute	To establish a formal practice or system.
68.	Integrate	To combine things to become a whole.
69.	Interpret	To explain the meaning of complex information.
70.	Launch	To start or set in motion an enterprise.
71.	Lead	To be in charge or command of a team.
72.	Leverage	To use something to its maximum advantage.
73.	Manage	To be in charge of; to handle successfully.
74.	Mediate	To intervene in a dispute to resolve it.
75.	Mentor	To advise and train a junior colleague.
76.	Mobilize	To organize people to act in concert.
77.	Modernize	To adapt something to modern needs or habits.
78.	Negotiate	To bring about a result by discussion.
79.	Optimize	To make the best or most effective use of.
80.	Organize	To arrange systematically; to coordinate actions.
81.	Originate	To create or initiate something entirely new.
82.	Overhaul	To make comprehensive repairs or improvements.
83.	Persuade	To induce someone to act through reasoning.
84.	Pioneer	To be the first to apply a method.
85.	Preside	To be in a position of authority.
86.	Prioritize	To treat something as most important.
87.	Reconcile	To make two ideas or accounts compatible.
88.	Rectify	To correct something that is wrong.
89.	Redefine	To define something again or differently.
90.	Refine	To improve something by making small changes.
91.	Reinforce	To strengthen or support with additional material.
92.	Resolve	To find a solution to a problem.
93.	Restructure	To organize a system or company differently.
94.	Revolutionize	To change something radically or fundamentally.
95.	Scrutinize	To examine or inspect closely and thoroughly.
96.	Secure	To succeed in obtaining something with difficulty.
97.	Spearhead	To lead an attack, movement, or initiative.
98.	Strategize	To devise a plan to achieve a goal.
99.	Streamline	To make a process or system more efficient.
100.	Synthesize	To combine elements into a new whole.