Reporting verbs list
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This document lists 190 reporting verbs used to describe a person or document's position, analysis, or perspective on a topic. Some examples of reporting verbs included are: acknowledges, advocates, agrees, alleges, argues, asserts, cites, comments, concludes, confirms, considers, contends, and describes.
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Reporting verbs list
- 1. Reporting Verbs 1. Accedes 2. accentuates 3. Accepts the view that 4. accords with 5. accounts for 6. Acknowledges 7. Achieves 8. adopts the view that 9. Admits 10. Adds 11. Addresses 12. advances 13. Advocates 14. Agrees 15. Affirms 16. Alleges 17. Analyses 18. Appears to put forward/ suggest 19. Applauds 20. Argues 21. articulates 22. Asks 23. Asserts 24. Assumes 25. assures 26. Attaches 27. Attempted 28. Believes 29. Builds on 30. Carry out 31. Characterises 32. Cites 33. Claims 34. Collates 35. Comments 36. Conceives 37. concedes 38. concurs 39. Concludes 40. Conduct 41. Confines 42. Confirms 43. conjectures 44. Considers 45. Contends 46. contradicts 47. Converts 48. Critiques 49. Deals with 50. Debates 51. Defines 52. Demands 53. Denotes 54. Describes 55. Demonstrates 56. details 57. Develops 58. Disregards 59. Discovers 60. discounts 61. Discusses 62. dismisses 63. diputes 64. 65. Disregards 66. dissents 67. diverges 68. Doubts 69. Draws attention 70. Emphasises 71. Encapsulates 72. Enlighten 73. establishes 74. Estimates 75. Evaluates 76. Examines 77. Exemplifies 78. Explains 79. Expands 80. Expresses 81. favours 82. Finds 83. Focuses on 84. Generalises 85. Highlights 86. hints 87. Holds the view that 88. Hypothesises 89. Illustrates 90. Implies 91. improves 92. ignores 93. Identifies 94. Incorporates 95. Indicates 96. infers 97. Innovates 98. Insists 99. Interprets 100. intimate 101. Investigate 102. Isolates 103. Feels 104. Finds 105. Labels 106. Lists 107. looks on 108. maintains 109. Makes clear 110. Measures 111. Mentions 112. Mistrusts 113. Modifies 114. Moots 115. Notes 116. Neglects 117. Obtains 118. Opposes 119. Outlines 120. overcomes 121. Overlooks 122. Perceives 123. Performs 124. Points out 125. Points to 126. poses 127. Praises 128. Predicts 129. Presumes 130. Proposes 131. propounds 132. popularises 133. Provides 134. poses 135. Posits 136. Postulates 137. probes 138. profers 139. profess 140. Proves 141. Puts forward 142. Questions 143. Quotes 144. Reasons 145. Rebuts 146. rebuffs 147. recognises 148. Reconciles 149. Reformulates 150. reflect on 151. Refutes 152. Rejects 153. regards 154. Reinforces 155. Relies on 156. repudiates 157. Remarks 158. Reminds 159. Reveals 160. Reviews 161. Reports 162. Researches 163. Reflects 164. Says 165. Scrutinises 166. Shares the view 167. Sheds light on 168. Shows 169. Speculates 170. States 171. Studies 172. Stresses 173. Subscribes to 174. Suggests 175. Summarises 176. Supports 177. surmises 178. Surveys 179. Suspects 180. Synthesises 181. tackles 182. takes the view that 183. takes X to be. 184. Thinks 185. Throws light on 186. Traces 187. Transfers 188. Undertakes 189. underscores 190. Writes