Top 100 Power Verbs

Top 100 Power Verbs

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Top 100 Power Verbs

The Most Powerful Verbs and Phrases You Can Use to Win in Any Situation

MICHAEL FAULKNER WITH MICHELLE FAULKNER-LUNSFORD

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Contents

CHAPTER 1 CHAPTER 2 CHAPTER 3 CHAPTER 4 CHAPTER 5 CHAPTER 6 CHAPTER 7 CHAPTER 8

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

The Connection Between Communications and Success . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Verb Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5

How to Use This Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Additional Support for You . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

100 Top Action Verbs for Business, Brokering, Banking, Bargaining, and Occasionally Betting the Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

100 Top Action Verbs for Challenging Situations and Difficult Moments, Calumny, Comebacks, or When You Just Want to Get in the Last Word . . . . . 83

100 Top Action Verbs for Mind Games, Mental Panache, Mastermind Monkey Business, Meeting MENSAs, or Just Showing Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

100 Top Action Verbs for Presenters, Professors, Preachers, Poets, Playwrights, and Pundits Searching for Savoir Faire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

100 Top Action Verbs for Schooling, Sagacity, Shrewdness, and Other Times to Be Sharp and Serious . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

100 Top Action Verbs for Schmoozing, Socializing, Shindigs, Getting Sentimental, or Using Your Networking to Work the Room . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

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