Accomplish | Achieve |
Acquire | Activate |
Adapt | Address |
Adjust | Administer |
Adopt | Advance |
Advocate | Analyze |
Answer | Apply |
Appoint | Appraise |
Arrange | Assemble |
Assess | Assign |
Assist | Audit |
Augment | Award |
Balance | Become |
Build | Calculate |
Calibrate | Change |
Check | Choose |
Circulate | Classify |
Close | Collaborate |
Collect | Combine |
Compare | Compile |
Complete | Compose |
Compute | Condense |
Confer | Confirm |
Connect | Consolidate |
Construct | Consult |
Contribute | Control |
Convert | Convey |
Coordinate | Correct |
Correlate | Counsel |
Count | Create |
Critique | Debate |
Decide | Defend |
Define | Delegate |
Deliberate | Deliver |
Demonstrate | Describe |
Design | Detect |
Determine | Develop |
Devise | Diagnose |
Diagram | Differentiate |
Direct | Disburse |
Discharge | Discipline |
Disconnect | Discover |
Display | Disseminate |
Distinguish | Distribute |
Diversify | Draft |
Drive | Elaborate |
Elicit | Eliminate |
Employ | Empower |
Encourage | Energize |
Engineer | Enlist |
Enrich | Ensure |
Enter | Entertain |
Enumerate | Establish |
Estimate | Evaluate |
Examine | Exchange |
Execute | Exhibit |
Experiment | Explain |
Extract | Facilitate |
Fashion | File |
Forecast | Forge |
Form | Formulate |
Fortify | Foster |
Found | Frame |
Garner | Gather |
Gauge | Generate |
Govern | Grade |
Grasp | Group |
Guard | Guide |
Identify | Illustrate |
Implement | Import |
Improve | Inaugurate |
Indicate | Influence |
Inform | Initiate |
Innovate | Inspect |
Inspire | Institute |
Instruct | Interpret |
Interview | Invent |
Investigate | Invigorate |
Involve | Issue |
Join | Justify |
Label | Launch |
Lead | List |
Listen | Load |
Locate | Make |
Manage | Manufacture |
Map | Match |
Maximize | Measure |
Mediate | Mend |
Mix | Modernize |
Modify | Monitor |
Motivate | Move |
Multiply | Name |
Negotiate | Notify |
Observe | Obtain |
Open | Operate |
Optimize | Order |
Organize | Originate |
Outline | Overhaul |
Oversee | Package |
Perform | Persuade |
Plan | Post |
Predict | Prepare |
Prescribe | Present |
Preserve | Prevent |
Procure | Produce |
Program | Promote |
Propose | Prove |
Provide | Provoke |
Purchase | Push |
Quantify | Question |
Raise | Rank |
Rate | Rebuild |
Recall | Recite |
Recommend | Reconcile |
Record | Recruit |
Reduce | Refer |
Refine | Reform |
Refresh | Register |
Regulate | Reinforce |
Reiterate | Reject |
Release | Repair |
Replace | Reply |
Report | Represent |
Reproduce | Rescue |
Research | Resolve |
Respond | Restore |
Restructure | Retrieve |
Revamp | Review |
Revise | Revive |
Revolutionize | Reward |
Salvage | Schedule |
Score | Screen |
Search | Select |
Sell | Send |
Serve | Service |
Shape | Solicit |
Solve | Sort |
Spearhead | Specify |
Start | Stimulate |
Store | Strengthen |
Structure | Study |
Submit | Summarize |
Supply | Survey |
Sustain | Synthesize |
Systematize | Teach |
Tell | Tend |
Test | Trade |
Train | Transfer |
Transform | Translate |
Transmit | Treat |
Troubleshoot | Update |
Use | Validate |
Verify | Weigh |
Write |
Active Verbs
Active verbs aren't a type of verb but rather refer to a verb in a sentence that uses active voice. Active voice is always used to describe goals and passive voice is avoided. For example, "build a spaceship" is active voice because the subject of the sentence directly performs the verb. As a counterexample, "a spaceship will be built" is a passive voice. The following verbs are commonly used to describe goals.Smart Goals
Goals are often designed to be smart, or specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound. See examples here.Summary
Words to describe goals are typically active future tense verbs that describe intended actions, outcomes and accomplishments.
