10 Powerful Verbs To

Supercharge Your Vocabulary

 ● Blab
● Crave
● Devour
● Embrace
● Eradicate
● Gravitate
● Pinpoint
● Revitalize
● Scrutinize
● Soar
BLAB
To blab has a couple meanings – it can mean simply
to talk carelessly and without thinking, or it can
mean to reveal something secret by talking
carelessly.

Or maybe there’s a company developing a new

technology, and one of its employees blabs to the
media – they revealed some secrets by talking
without using caution.
CRAVE
To crave means to have an intense desire for
something.

We often use this for food – on a hot day, I might

crave some ice cream; I really want it. But it can be
used for strongly desiring other things, too.

Maybe you crave your boss’s approval, or your kids

crave your attention.
DEVOUR
Devour means to eat something quickly and
greedily with a lot of desire. So if I was
craving ice cream, and then I get some ice
cream, I’d probably devour it.

You’ll also sometimes see this verb used for

consuming or reading a book very quickly –
I devoured the book means I read it very
quickly because it was SO good.
EMBRACE
Embrace is another word for hug, so the
physical action of putting your arms
around someone.

But it can also be used to mean fully

accepting and welcoming an idea, a
cause, a philosophy, and so on.
ERADICATE
To eradicate means to completely eliminate
something, destroy it or get rid of it completely.

If your home is infested with insects, you’d want

to call an exterminator to eradicate the insects.
Some diseases that were very common in the past
have been eradicated by vaccines. I hope someday
we can eradicate poverty in the world, so nobody
will be poor any more.
GRAVITATE
To gravitate means to move toward someone or
something, or be attracted to that thing, like it’s
pulling you with some kind of power.

If you love science, you might gravitate toward

science fiction movies – you tend to watch them
instead of other types of movies. People would
gravitate toward a leader who is very charming;
they move toward him and go along with him.
PINPOINT
To pinpoint means to identify, usually not
identifying a person but rather a problem
or a reason or another piece of
information.

Let’s say you’re having back pain, your

doctor would try to pinpoint exactly which
nerve in your back is causing the pain.
REVITALIZE
Revitalize means to bring in new life and new
energy.

When the economy isn’t growing, the government

might take action to try to revitalize it.

Or maybe you have a city that is kind of boring, but

then a new cultural center revitalizes the city
center – it adds new energy and movement and
life.
scrutinize
To scrutinize means to examine or inspect
something very carefully, often looking for
any mistakes or flaws. The workers at an
important newspaper would scrutinize
articles before publishing them, to make sure
there are no typos, grammar mistakes, or
errors in facts.
SOAR
Soar means to fly high in the air; we might talk about
a bird like an eagle soaring in the sky.

It can also mean to increase or improve suddenly –

like how sales of face masks soared during
coronavirus; there was a huge and sudden increase.
Saying that your heart or spirit is soaring means that
you’re feeling super great, almost like you’re flying.
 A)You walk into a room carrying something. Glass breaks, everybody screams and
something dies.What happened?
b) What can you find here, there and everywhere?

c) What flies around all day but doesn’t go anywhere?

d) Somebody’s mother has four sons. North, South and East. What is the name of the
fourth son?
e) Everyone has it, but no one can lose it.
f) It doesn’t belong to everyone, it belongs to you. But everybody uses it and it
doesn’t worry you.
g) It has hands and a face, but it can’t hold anything or smile.
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