Apostrophe with Plural Possessive Nouns.Want to improve your English in five minutes a day? Get a subscription and start receiving our writing tips and exercises daily! Keep learning! Browse the Vocabulary category, check our popular posts, or choose a related post below: Worship: To extravagantly praise, as if the subject were a deity. “to spy,” especially in the sense of obtaining information about a racehorse to improve one’s betting odds.Ĥ0. Salute: To praise or honor, in addition to the sense of gesturing to show respect or to otherwise acknowledge someone as a courtesy.ģ9. Rhapsodize: To praise excessively, from the noun form, rhapsody, which refers to a literary work that rouses emotions (originally, it denoted recitation of an epic poem).ģ8. The word has an additional sense, more commonly used, of echoing or reverberating.ģ7. Resound: To praise, or to become one praised, with the sense of loud approval. (In its more common noun form, it means “fame.”)ģ6. Recommend: To endorse or propose as commendable, in addition to the more pedestrian connotations such as “to advise.”ģ5. Recognize: To publicly thank someone for their service or otherwise indicate appreciation.ģ4. Mention: To identify someone or something for mild praise, often in the form of a consolation prize called “Honorable Mention.”ģ3. Magnify: To praise, in the sense, as the etymology suggests, of making someone or something appear greater than they or it is.ģ1. Laud: To praise also, capitalized, a religious ceremony. Idolize: To worship, with a connotation of excessive praise.Ģ9. Hymn: A close synonym of carol and chant.Ģ8. Honor: To express respect or admiration.Ģ7. Hail: To greet enthusiastically as a show of approval the term also has a mundane sense of “to call or greet.”Ģ6. Glorify: To praise with the intent of making the subject appear glorious, but it also means “to make something or someone seem to be better than it or they really is.”Ģ5. The word also has similar senses of “to depict with excessive favor” or “to present to one’s advantage,” as well as “to deceive, as in “I flatter myself that I acted wisely.”Ģ4. Flatter: To praise insincerely or only for selfish motives. Fete: To honor with a celebration, or to honor in general.Ģ3. Extol (or extoll): To praise generously.Ģ2. Eulogize (British English: eulogise): To praise in speech or writing usually, the connotation is that the subject of praise is deceased.Ģ1. Emblazon: Originally meant to inscribe or decorate a heraldic device or bearings now, the sense is extended to praising, especially in writing, as if to permanently establish the subject as praiseworthy.ġ9. Deify: To glorify, as if to equate the person being praised with a god this sense coexists with the literal religious sense of according someone the status of a god.ġ8.
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Crack up: Slang used to refer to someone or something that may or may not be as worthy of praise as previously thought generally restricted to phrases such as “not all it’s cracked up to be.”ġ7. Compliment: To communicate respect or admiration for someone to that person or another.ġ6. Commend: To praise with approval, or to recommend.ġ5. Commemorate: To observe a ceremony of remembrance, or to provide a memorial.ġ4. However, this term also has an opposite meaning of “to reprimand,” as well as the senses of “to quote” or “to refer to,” so the context should be clear.ġ3. Cite: To formally call attention to for praise.
Cheer: To cheer in applause or to express triumph.ġ2.
Chant: A close synonym of carol and hymn.ġ1. Celebrate: To publicly honor in a secular sense as well as a religious one.ġ0. Carol: To praise with song, or in a like manner.ĩ.
Bless: To praise or to glorify in a religious sense the word also has a secular sense of “to approve” as well as “to favor” (the latter in usage such as “blessed with remarkable talent”).Ĩ. Belaud: To praise, but the sense is of excessive acclaim.ħ. Applaud: To express approval in general, as well as to clap hands or otherwise praise nonverbally.Ħ.
Adulate: “To express excessive praise.” This rarely used verb form of adulation has a connotation of flattery. Adore: To honor or worship in a religious sense, although its meaning has extended to “to be fond of, to admire.”Ĥ. Acknowledge: To recognize someone or something for services rendered the word also has the connotation of “to confirm rights or authority.”ģ. Acclaim: To applaud or praise also a noun referring to the action of applause or cheering.Ģ. To avert criticism (admonishment, censure, chastising, and so on), I offer here a roster of synonyms for its antonym, praise, in that word’s verb form as well as when it’s used as a noun.ġ. Last week, I offered a list of synonyms for the word criticize.
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