Power Verbs for Managers & Executives

Question 1

ABANDON

(1) abdicate; abjure; break off; cast aside; cede; cop out; desert; discard; drop; eliminate; forfeit; forgo; forsake; give over; give up; halt in progress; jettison; leave; not continue; quit; relinquish; renounce; surrender; throw over; yield; waive; walk out (2) ease; lightheartedness; natural spontaneity; unrestraint; cast aside (3) give in to emotion

Answer 1

Examples

(1) We had to abandon plans to produce in China when the quality issues could not be resolved.

Question 2

ADAPT

(1) acclimate; accommodate; adjust; change; conform; fashion; fit; get use to; make suitable; reconcile; square; suit; tailor (2) make fit often by modification (3) to cause something to change for the better

Answer 2

Examples

Antithesis—“ Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people” (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright and a cofounder of the London School of Economics, 1896–1950).