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Power words, or action verbs, are words used to help make a statement stronger. By using action verbs, you can assume an "active voice" instead of a "passive voice" on your resume. Properly incorporating power words into your resumes, letters and other correspondence can help convey strong writing skills and increase the strength of your communication.

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Dionys
Feb. 24, 2007, 5:50 p.m.
This assumes that most Americans even know the difference between "active" and "passive" voice. Or for that matter the difference between a verb and noun.
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disraeli
Feb. 24, 2007, 7:08 p.m.
Dionys
I can see the reason for your concern. From the list it is clear that power words are distinguished from non-power words because generally the power words end with a "ed".
I expect that this oversimplification will be seized upon to generate additional power words such as "surrendered", "capitulated", "retreated", "weakened", "emmasculated", "neutered", "prostrated", "buggered" and so on. However it will make for entertaining resumes and corporate speak.
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Dionys
Feb. 24, 2007, 7:40 p.m.
"I neutered the opposing CFO after verbally emasculating him in front of his CEO."
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TruthDetector
Feb. 24, 2007, 9:32 p.m.
The list for Resume words was quite long in comparison. Just goes to show what a working person is up against.
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Amazing1
Feb. 25, 2007, 10:35 a.m.
The only suggested "k" word was "kept." I suggest you could add "kicked" as a power word. There were no entries for "x" or "z." What about "zapped?"
Take the following sentence for example: I kicked his butt and zapped his cell phone. That sounds like power words. Not the polite biz-speak that includes words like "encouraged."
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2ponies
Feb. 25, 2007, 11:57 a.m.
Words like these may impress the 20-something HR tech, but real performance is what it takes to win and hold a job. It's no wonder that our quality performance in the workplace has slipped when people are more concerned with the vocabulary fascade than the performance. These are the same people that 10 years later will fool themselves into thinking a high credit card balance, and all the latest "toys", allows a visible measure of the successful person. This is not a useful tool, unless it is backed up be real accomplishment.
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firstofficer
Feb. 25, 2007, noon
They forgot to add the following:
The known knowns and the unknown unknowns.
And the new derivative of Nuclear:
New Killer.
LOL