What are some powerful, descriptive action VERBS?

Simple actions makes for powerful reading. If you try for ACTION VERBS, it will move the action but focus on the storytelling

Bennet Pomerantz, Fiction Fix Magazine

Without knowing what kind of “power” you’re looking for, it’s hard to answer your question. It would be helpful if we knew why you are asking the question. Is it for a resume? Is it for a novel or short story? (If so, what type of character is it?) Is it merely to demonstrate your understanding of powerful, descriptive verbs for a grammar assignment?

There are many powerful and descriptive verbs. It just really depends on how the power is being used – passively, (i.e., “ignore,” “tolerate,” “surmise,”) aggresively, (i.e., “dissect,” “emasculate,” “discombobulate,”) or somewhere in between, (i.e., “administer,” “conduct,” “examine”).

‘Hope that helps!

Cyndi

p.s. And by the way, calling them “action verbs” is redundant. 🙂

well, i would suggest to think of any simple ons such as hurt…then change it using a thesourous…to like maimed, or wounded or injured…just change the simple ones to their synonmys, cause for all the normal verbs there must be a gripping verb to accompany…except for the to-be verbs…

good luck

but just stay away from the second grade verbs

like cut, fell

(seveered, plunged…so on and so forth)

i like them both but i think i recognize the second one from a book i read. just make sure you are not copying or using the same ideas as someone elses book. its not a good idea because people would find out that they were the same and then not publish them. but if you are that good then you should have already contacted a book publisher and found out what needed to be done to publish somnething also yo should put them on the internet for others to enjoy and read as well.

In English, Anglo-Saxon verbs tend to be richer than Latin-derived ones.

Examples:

skewer v. perforate

swerve v. deviate

grind v. pulverize

adore, annihilate, banish, berate, connive, collide, cower, dominate, educate, evade, evoke, explode, fly, gyrate, hop, iterate, ignore, jump, joke, kick, love, languish, motivate, nurture, ogle, pout, question, rave, stare, tumble, undulate, vocalize, whirl, (xerox), yell, yodel, yank, zip

Eviscerate

Commandeer

Expostulate

Defenestrate

Abdicate

Betray

Panic

words that end in “ize” are good.

like vaporize or pulverize or something.

it all depends on the context.

ram

jam

assult

betrayal?