Action Verbs

Action verbs make your policy more precise. Here are some examples shared by Wake Forest University¹⁾.

• Administer
• Analyze
• Appoint
• Approve
• Assign
• Attain
• Authorize
• Chair
• Consider
• Consolidate
• Contract
• Control
• Convert
• Coordinate
• Decide
• Delegate
• Develop
• Direct
• Eliminate
• Emphasize
• Enforce
• Enhance
• Establish
• Execute
• Generate
• Handle
• Head
• Hire
• Host
• Improve
• Incorporate
• Increase
• Initiate
• Inspect
• Institute
• Lead
• Manage
• Merge
• Motivate
• Organize
• Originate
• Overhaul
• Oversee
• Plan
• Preside
• Prioritize
• Produce
• Recommend
• Reorganize
• Replace
• Restore
• Review
• Schedule
• Streamline
• Strengthen
• Supervise
• Terminate

• Address
• Advertise
• Arbitrate
• Arrange
• Articulate
• Author
• Clarify
• Collaborate
• Communicate
• Compose
• Condense
• Confer
• Consult
• Contact
• Convey
• Convince
• Correspond
• Debate
• Define
• Describe
• Develop
• Direct
• Discus
• Draft
• Edit
• Elicit
• Enlist
• Explain
• Express
• Formulate
• Furnish
• Incorporate
• Influence
• Interact
• Interpret
• Interview
• Involve
• Join
• Judge
• Lecture
• Listen
• Market
• Mediate
• Moderate
• Negotiate
• Observe
• Outline
• Participate
• Persuade
• Present
• Promote
• Propose
• Publicize
• Reconcile
• Recruit
• Refer
• Reinforce
• Report
• Resolve
• Respond
• Solicit
• Specify
• Speak
• Suggest
• Summarize
• Synthesize
• Translate
• Write

• Analyze
• Clarify
• Collect
• Compare
• Conduct
• Critique
• Detect
• Determine
• Diagnose
• Evaluate
• Examine
• Experiment
• Explore
• Extract
• Formulate
• Gather
• Identify
• Inspect
• Interpret
• Interview
• Invent
• Investigate
• Locate
• Measure
• Organize
• Research
• Search
• Solve
• Summarize
• Survey
• Systematize
• Test

• Adapt
• Assemble
• Build
• Calculate
• Compute
• Conserve
• Construct
• Convert
• Debug
• Design
• Determine
• Develop
• Engineer
• Fabricate
• Fortify
• Install
• Maintain
• Operate
• Overhaul
• Print
• Program
• Rectify
• Regulate
• Remodel
• Repair
• Replace
• Restore
• Solve
• Specialize
• Standardize
• Study
• Upgrade
• Utilize

• Adapt
• Advise
• Clarify
• Coach
• Communicate
• Conduct
• Coordinate
• Critique
• Develop
• Enable
• Encourage
• Evaluate
• Explain
• Facilitate
• Focus
• Guide
• Individualize
• Inform
• Instill
• Instruct
• Motivate
• Persuade
• Simulate
• Stimulate
• Teach
• Test
• Train
• Transmit
• Tutor

• Administer
• Adjust
• Allocate
• Analyze
• Appraise
• Assess
• Audit
• Balance
• Calculate
• Compute
• Conserve
• Correct
• Determine
• Develop
• Estimate
• Forecast
• Manage
• Market
• Measure
• Plan
• Program
• Project
• Reconcile
• Reduce
• Research
• Retrieve

• Act
• Adapt
• Begin
• Combine
• Conceptualize
• Condense
• Create
• Customize
• Design
• Develop
• Direct
• Display
• Draw
• Entertain
• Establish
• Fashion
• Formulate
• Found
• Illustrate
• Initiate
• Institute
• Integrate
• Introduce
• Invent
• Model
• Modify
• Originate
• Perform
• Photograph
• Plan
• Revise
• Revitalize
• Shape
• Solve

• Adapt
• Advocate
• Aid
• Answer
• Arrange
• Assess
• Assist
• Care For
• Clarify
• Coach
• Collaborate
• Contribute
• Cooperate
• Counsel
• Demonstrate
• Diagnose
• Educate
• Encourage
• Ensure
• Expedite
• Facilitate
• Familiarize
• Further
• Guide
• Help
• Insure
• Intervene
• Motivate
• Provide
• Refer
• Rehabilitate
• Present
• Resolve
• Simplify
• Supply
• Support
• Volunteer

• Approve
• Arrange
• Catalog
• Categorize
• Chart
• Classify
• Code
• Collect
• Compile
• Correspond
• Distribute
• Execute
• File
• Generate
• Implement
• Incorporate
• Inspect
• Log
• Maintain
• Monitor
• Obtain
• Operate
• Order
• Organize
• Prepare
• Process
• Provide
• Purchase
• Record
• Register
• Reserve
• Respond
• Review
• Route
• Schedule
• Screen
• Set Up
• Submit
• Supply
• Standardize
• Systematize
• Update
• Validate
• Verify

• Achieve
• Complete
• Expand
• Exceed
• Improve
• Pioneer
• Reduce (Losses)
• Resolve (Issues)
• Restore
• Spearhead
• Succeed
• Surpass
• Transform
• Win