120 Academic Writing Verbs

120 Academic Writing Verbs

  • Access
  • Achieve
  • Adapt
  • Affect
  • Aid
  • Allocate
  • Allocate
  • Alternate
  • analyze
  • approach
  • Argue
  • Assess
  • Assign
  • Assist
  • Assume
  • Attain
  • Attribute
  • Categorize
  • Channel
  • Claim
  • Clarify
  • Classify
  • Commit
  • Communicate
  • Compensate
  • Compound
  • Comprehend
  • Comprise
  • Conclude
  • Conduct
  • Confine
  • Confirm
  • Consent
  • Constrain
  • Consult
  • Consume
  • Contract
  • Contradict
  • Contrast
  • Contribute
  • Convert
  • Coordinate
  • Create
  • Decline
  • Deduct
  • Define
  • Demonstrate
  • Derive
  • Detect
  • Deviate
  • Diminish
  • Document
  • Emerge
  • Emphasize
  • Enforce
  • Establish
  • Estimate
  • Evaluate
  • Expand
  • Facilitate
  • Focus
  • Function
  • Fund
  • Generate
  • Grant
  • Guide
  • Identify
  • Illustrate
  • Implement
  • Imply
  • Impose
  • Indicate
  • Inhibit
  • Insert
  • Integrate
  • Interact
  • Intervene
  • Invest
  • Involve
  • Isolate
  • Justify
  • Legislate
  • Link
  • Locate
  • Maintain
  • Modify
  • Monitor
  • Obtain
  • Occupy
  • Occur
  • Participate
  • Perceive
  • Precede
  • Prioritize
  • Process
  • Promote
  • Publish
  • Publish
  • Pursue
  • React
  • Refine
  • Regulate
  • Reinforce
  • Rely
  • Remove
  • Require
  • Respond
  • Restore
  • Restrict
  • Retain
  • Reverse
  • Seek
  • Select
  • Specify
  • State
  • Submit
  • Survey
  • Survive
  • Transfer
  • Validate