Synonyms and related words :
accelerando, acceleration, accolade, addition, adjunct, adulation, aggrandizement, aggravation, ampliation, amplification, annoyance, apotheosis, augmentation, ballyhoo, beatification, beefing-up, bepraisement, big talk, blowing up, blowup, broadening, burlesque, canonization, caricature, concentration, condensation, congratulation, consolidation, contentiousness, crescendo, deepening, deification, deliberate aggravation, deployment, deterioration, dignification, dilatation, dilation, dispersion, elevation, eloge, embittering, embitterment, encomium, enhancement, enlargement, ennoblement, enshrinement, enthronement, eulogium, eulogy, exacerbation, exaggerating, exaggeration, exaltation, exasperation, excess, excessive praise, exorbitance, expansion, explosion, extension, extravagance, extreme, fanning out, flare, flattery, glorification, glory, grandiloquence, heating-up, heightening, hero worship, hiking, homage, hommage, honor, huckstering, hyperbole, hyperbolism, idolatry, idolizing, immortalization, increase, inflation, information explosion, inordinacy, intensification, irritation, kudos, laud, laudation, lionizing, meed of praise, overemphasis, overestimation, overkill, overpraise, overstatement, paean, panegyric, pickup, population explosion, praise, prodigality, profuseness, provocation, puffery, puffing up, raising, redoubling, reinforcement, sainting, sanctification, sensationalism, sharpening, souring, speedup, splay, spread, spreading, step-up, strengthening, stretching, superlative, tall talk, tightening, touting, travesty, tribute, upping, widening, worsening