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Nancy (Braschayko) McNamara

Nancy (Braschayko) McNamara, a summa cum laude Laker Alumni from 2006 is attending the University of Michigan School of Medicine.

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Action Words

The following are some actions words you can use in your resume to identify you as a 'doer', accent your accomplishments. They should be used sparingly and never to mislead or imply anything that's not true.

Action Words
Accelerate	Accomplish	Achieve	Acquire
Act	Activate	Adapt	Address
Adjust	Administer	Advance	Advertise
Advise	Affect	Aid	Allocate
Analyze	Anticipate	Apply	Appoint
Appraise	Approve	Arbitrate	Arrange
Assemble	Assess	Assign	Assist
Attain	Audit	Augment	Authenticate
Author	Authorize	Avert	Avoid
Balance	Broaden	Budget	Built
Calculate	Catalog	Centralize	Chair
Change	Chart	Check	Clarify
Classify	Close	Coach	Collaborate
Collect	Combine	Communicate	Compare
Compile	Complete	Compose	Compute
Conceive	Conclude	Condense	Condition
Conduct	Confirm	Consolidate	Construct
Consult	Consummate	Continue	Contract
Contribute	Control	Convert	Convey
Convince	Coordinate	Correlate	Correspond
Counsel	Create	Critique	Cultivate
Decentralize	Decrease	Define	Delegate
Deliver	Demonstrate	Design	Designate
Detail	Determine	Develop	Devise
Diagnose	Direct	Discharge	Discipline
Discover	Dispatch	Dispose	Disprove
Distribute	Document	Double	Draft
Earn	Edit	Educate	Effect
Employ	Enforce	Engineer	Enlarge
Enlist	Enroll	Establish	Estimate
Evaluate	Examine	Exceed	Execute
Exercise	Expand	Expedited	Extended
Extracted	Facilitate	Finance	Forecast
Form	Formulate	Found	Frame
Fulfill	Gain	Gather	Generate
Govern	Group	Guide	Half
Handle	Head	Help	Highlight
Hire	Identify	Implement	Improve
Improvise	Increase	Index	Influence
Initiate	Inspect	Inspire	Install
Instigate	Institute	Instruct	Insure
Integrate	Interpret	Interview	Introduce
Invent	Invest	Investigate	Issue
Justify	Launch	Lay Out	Lead
Lecture	Lead	Lighten	Liquidate
Litigate	Lobby	Locate	Make
Maintain	Manage	Manufacture	Market
Match	Mediate	Merchandise	Minimize
Mobilize	Moderate	Modernize	Modify
Monitor	Motivate	Negotiate	Obtain
Operate	Order	Organize	Orient
Overcome	Oversee	Participate	Perform
Persuade	Pinpoint	Pioneer	Plan
Post	Prepare	Present	Preside
Prevent	Price	Probe	Process
Procure	Produce	Program	Progress
Project	Promote	Propose	Proved
Provide	Publicize	Publish	Purchase
Realize	Receive	Recommend	Reconcile
Record	Recruit	Rectify	Redesign
Reduce	Re-Establish	Refer	Regulate
Reinforce	Reject	Relate	Renegotiate
Reorganize	Replace	Report	Represent
Research	Reshape	Resolve	Restore
Restructure	Retrieve	Revamp	Reverse
Review	Revise	Revitalize	Revive
Route	Save	Schedule	Screen
Secure	Select	Sell	Serve
Service	Set up	Settle	Shape
Ship	Showe	Simplify	Sell
Solve	Sort	Spearhead	Specify
Speak	Sponsor	Staff	Standardize
Start Up	Start	Stimulate	Streamline
Strengthen	Stretch	Structure	Study
Suggest	Summarize	Supervise	Supply
Support	Surpass	Survey	Sustain
Systemize	Tabulate	Tailor	Teach
Terminate	Test	Tighten	Trace
Trade	Train	Transact	Transferr
Transform	Translate	Trim	Triple
Uncover	Undertake	Unify	Update
Use	Utilize	Validate	Verify
Vitalize	Widen	Win	Work
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