AID FOR SELECTING ACTION VERBS

During the workshop you will be assigning action verbs to your job steps. Below are some examples you can use. You may want to bring the list with you to the workshop.

Access
Acclimatize
Accommodate
Activate
Actuate
Adapt
Adjust
Administer
Advance
Advise
Align
Allocate
Ambush
Analyze
Annotate
Answer
Apply
Appraise
Arrange
Archive
Arm
Archive
Assemble
Assign
Attach
Attack
Balance
Breach
Brief
Bypass
Calculate
Calibrate
Camouflage
Categorize
Center
Change
Charge
Check
Classify
Clean
Clear
Close
Collate
Collect
Combine
Compare
Compile
Compose
Compute
Conclude
Conduct
Confirm
Connect
Consolidate
Contrast
Control
Convert
Correlate
Cover
Create
Criticize
Cross-check
Debrief
Debug
Decide
Decontaminate
Defend
Define
Deliver
Deploy
Derive
Design
Designate
Destroy
Determine
Diagnose
Diagram
Dig
Direct / Differentiate Disassemble
Disconnect
Discover
Discriminate
Discrimination
Disengage
Dismantle
Dispatch
Display
Dispose
Distinguish
Distribute
Disseminate
Divide
Draft
Draw
Drive
Effect
Egress
Elaborate
Elevate
Eliminate
Emplace
Employ
Encrypt
Energize
Engage
Enter
Estimate
Establish
Evacuate
Evade
Evaluate
Examine
Exchange
Explain
Express
Extend
Extract
Fill out
Finalize
Find
Fire
Fit
Follow
Format
Forward
Fuel
Generalize
Generate
Ground
Group
Guide
Harden
Hoist
Hover
Hypothesize
Identify
Illustrate
Infer
Inform
Infiltrate
Initialize
Input
Insert
Inspect
Install
Instruct
Integrate
Intercept
Investigate
Isolate
Issue
Jack / Label
Land
Launch
Lay
Lead
Level
List
Load
Locate
Log
Lubricate
Maintain
Manage
Maneuver
Manipulate
Map
Match
Measure
Modify
Mount
Move
Name
Navigate
Neutralize
Obtain
Order
Occupy
Open
Operate
Order
Organize
Orient
Outline
Pack
Park
Park
Patrol
Perform
Place
Plan
Plot
Police
Position
Post
Predict
Press
Pressurize
Prevent
Process
Procure
Produce
Project
Program
Protect
Provide
Publish
Queue
Raise
Range
Rank
Reach
Read
Realign
Recommend
Reconcile
Record
Recount
Recover
Redistribute
Reduce
Reestablish
Reexamine
Relocate
Reorganize
Restate / Resolve
Refuel
Regulate
Release
Relieve
Relocate
Remove
Repair
Replace
Replenish
Reset
Retrieve
Return
Revise
Rotate
Route
Save
Schedule
Search
Secure
Select
Send
Service
Separate
Shut down
Sight
Signal
Solve
Sort
Specify
Splint
Squeeze
State
Steer
Stockpile
Store
Stow
Strike
Submit
Summarize
Supervise
Support
Suppress
Sweep
Synthesize
Tailor
Take
Take charge
Take off
Tap
Job step
Tell
Temper
Template
Test
Tighten
Trace
Track
Train
Transfer
Translate
Transmit
Transport
Traverse
Treat
Triage
Troubleshoot
Tune
Type
Unload
Use
Update
Utilize
Wash
Write
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