accomplish
To finish something successfully after working at it.
accomplish in a sentence
- After months of practice, Mia finally managed to accomplish her goal of swimming a whole mile.
- It took the whole team a year to accomplish their plan of building a tree house, but they finished it at last.
Try an 11+ style question
Verbal reasoning papers often ask about a word like this.
Which word is closest in meaning to accomplish?
- Aquit
- Bfail
- Cachieve
- Dmiss
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C: achieve. The other three mean the opposite of accomplish.
Which word is most nearly opposite in meaning to accomplish?
- Acomplete
- Bachieve
- Cfinish
- Dfail
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D: fail. The other three mean nearly the same as accomplish.
Words that mean something similar
achieve, finish, complete
Words that mean the opposite
fail, quit, miss
More words about movement & action
- acquire: To get something and make it your own.
- agile: Able to move quickly and easily.
- aimless: Having no plan or purpose.
- amble: To walk in a slow, relaxed way.
- arduous: Very difficult and tiring, needing lots of effort.
- ascend: To climb or move upwards.
- assemble: To put pieces together, or to gather in one place.
- asunder: Apart, or into pieces.
More words to explore
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