Quiz-Tree
Verbs
Looking for verbs that say exactly what happened, not just "did" or "made"? Advanced English verbs let you describe how people act, decide, and react with far more accuracy.
1. Verbs for Clarity
2. Verbs for Deception 🔒
3. Verbs for Effort 🔒
4. Verbs for Praise 🔒
5. Verbs for Criticism 🔒
6. Verbs for Decline 🔒
7. Verbs for Control 🔒
8. Verbs for Reasoning 🔒
9. Verbs for Growth 🔒
10. Verbs for Decisions 🔒
Advanced English Verbs for Precise Writing
This topic focuses on the action words that show up in professional writing, the news, and any serious discussion. You will practice verbs for explaining and organizing ideas, like elucidate and delineate, verbs for holding things back, such as curtail, mitigate, and quash, and verbs for criticism and blame, including disparage and vilify.
Other quizzes cover effort and progress, with words like hone, expedite, and streamline, plus verbs for how things spread or fade, such as proliferate and languish. Used well, they make your writing sharper and your meaning harder to mistake.
Advanced Verbs with Audio Pronunciation
These verbs are easier to recognize on the page than to say in the moment. A word like recapitulate (to sum up the main points) or vacillate (to keep switching between choices) can tie up your tongue, so every quiz includes pronunciation audio. You hear the word, repeat it, and feel ready to use it out loud.
Did You Know?
A few of these verbs are easy to swap by mistake. To exacerbate a problem is to make it more severe, while to protract it is to make it last longer, so the same crisis can be both worsened and dragged out by two different failures.
Reasoning verbs split in a similar way. When you deduce something, you follow solid evidence to a firm conclusion, but when you surmise, you make a reasonable guess from incomplete information.
How the Advanced Vocabulary Quizzes Work
Each quiz takes only about five minutes, and you can repeat any of the 10 quizzes whenever you want the words to sink in deeper. Working through them in short bursts is an easy way to turn verbs you barely recognize into ones you reach for naturally. Ready to put them to work? Open these interactive English quizzes and start with whichever set looks most useful.