Action Words Flashcards
Accentuate
To accent; to emphasize
Accept
To receive as true; to regard as proper, normal, or inevitable.
Accomplish
To execute fully; to attain
Account
To give a report on; to furnish a justifying analysis or explanation
Accumulate
To collect; to gather
Achieve
To bring to a successful conclusion
Acknowledge
To report the receipt of
Acquaint
To cause to know personally; to make familiar
Acquire
To come into successful of
Act
To perform a specified function
Activate
To mobilize; to set into motion
Actuate
To put into mechanical action or motion
Adapt
To suit or fit by modification
Adhere
To give support or maintain loyalty; to be consistent; to hold fast or stick; to bind oneself to observance
Adjust
To bring to a more satisfactory state; to bring teh parts of something to a true or more effective position
Administer
To regularly and customarily exercise discretion and independent judgement; to make important decisions
Adopt
To take up and practice as ones own
Advance
To bring or move forward; to accelerate the growth or progress of; to raise to a higher rank or promote; to bring forward for notice, consideration, or acceptance; to make progress; to raise in rate
Advise
To recommend a course of action; to offer an informed opinion based on specialzed knowledge
Advocate
To recommend or speak in favor of
Affirm
To assert positively, to confirm
Affix
To secure an object to another; to attach
Align
To arrange in a linke; to array
Allot
To assign as a share
Alter
To make different without changing into something else
Amend
To change or modify for the better
Analyze
To seperate into elements and critically examine
Answer
To speak or write in reply
Anticipate
To foresee and act in advance so as to prevent
Apply
To put to use for a purpose; to employ diligently or with close attention
Appoint
To name officially
Appraise
To give an expert judgement of worth or merit
Appropriate
To take exclusive possesion of; to set apart for or assign to a particular purpose or use; to take without permission
Approve
To accept as satisfactory; to exercise final authority with regard to commitment of resources.
Arise
To get up; to come into being or attention
Arrange
To prepare for an event; to put in proper order
Articulate
To pronounce distinctly; to express in coherent verbal form; to form or fit into a systematic whole.
Ascend
To move gradually upward; to rise from a lower level; to go back in time or in order of genealogical succession; to succeed to.
Ascertain
To find out or discover through examination; to find out or learn for a certainty.
Aspire
To desire a lofty object
Assemble
To collect or gather together in a predetermined order from various sources.
