Verbs for Control

Power is not only about what you create. Sometimes it lies in what you stop, limit, or relieve.

This quiz covers alleviate, curtail, mitigate, quash, and impede, five verbs for reducing, suppressing, restraining, and blocking. You will find them in management discussions, policy writing, and any situation where controlling an outcome is the priority.

Worth noting: to alleviate is to ease suffering or discomfort that is already being felt; to mitigate is to limit the extent or impact of harm, often before it fully lands. You alleviate pain; you mitigate risk.