Acclaim – a) to welcome or salute with sounds of joyous welcome, goodwill or approval; b) to announce or proclaimwith joy and approval; to applaud

2. eulogize – a) to praise highly, write a eulogy about

3. fawn – a) to seek notice or favor by being a toady, bootlicker, obsequious sycophant; b) to seek favor by having a service, cringing demeanor; c) toady, truckle, flatter, kowtow

4. approve – a) to speak or think favorably of; pronounce or consider agreeable or good, judge favorably; b) to appreciate, esteem, to have a favorable opinion of someone or something

5. aggrandize – a) to widen the scope, increase the size or intensity; enlarge, extend; b) to make great or greater in power, wealth, rank or honor; c) inflate, strengthen, exalt, magnify

6. tout – a) to describe or advertise boastfully; publicize or promote, praise extravagantly

7. commend – a) to present, mention or praise as worthy of confidence, notice, kindness; recommend; b) to entrust, give in charge, deliver in confidence; c) acclaim, laud, extol, approve

8. laud – a) to praise, extol; b) a song or hymn of praise; c) applaud, honor, adulate, compliment, commend

9. extol – a) to praise highly, laud, eulogize; b) glorify, exalt, celebrate

10. venerate/adulate/revere -

Expressions of praise:

1. encomium – a) a formal expression of high praise, eulogy

2. panegyric – a) a lofty oration or writing in praise of a person or thing; eulogy; b) formal or elaborate praise; c) homage, tribute, encomium

3. plaudit – a) an enthusiastic expression of approval; b) a demonstration or round of applause after an acclaimed performance

4. kudos – a) honor, glory, acclaim; b) transliteration of the Greek singular noun kudos meaning “to praise or renown”; c) praise mostly commonly bestowed on journalistic writing

5. eulogy – a) a speech or writing in praise of a person, esp. a set oration in honor of a deceased person

6. accolade – a) any award, honor or laudatory notice; b) award of merit

7. paean – a) any song of praise, joy, or triumph; b) a hymn of invocation or thanksgiving to Apollo or some other ancient Greek diety

HARMFUL

1. baleful – a) full of menacing or malign influences, pernicious; b) wretched, miserable; c) harmful, malign, injurious, detrimental, evil, wicked, deadly

2. inimical – a) adverse in tendency or effect, harmful, unfavorable; b) unfriendly, hostile; c) noxious, antagonistic

3. minatory – a) menacing, threatening

4. baneful – a) destructive, pernicious; b) deadly, poisonous; c) harmful, noxious, venomous, toxic

5. injurious – a) harmful, hurtful or detrimental; b) doing or involving injury or wrong; c) insulting, abusive, defamatory; d) damaging, deleterious, pernicious, baneful, destructive, ruinous, unjust, wrongful, prejudicial, inequitable, derogatory, slanderous, libelous

6. perfidious – a) deliberately faithless, treacherous or deceitful; b) faithless, dishonest (a perfidious spouse); c) false, disloyal, unfaithful, traitorous

7. deleterious – a) injurious to health; b) harmful, injurious; c) pernicious, hurtful, destructive, noxious

8. insidious – a) intended to entrap or beguile; b) stealthily treacherous or deceitful; c) operating or proceeding in an inconspicuous or seemingly harmless way but actually with grave effect; d) corrupting, artful, cunning, wily, subtle, crafty

9. pernicious – a) causing insidious harm or ruin; b) injurious, hurtful; c) deadly, fatal, harmful, detrimental, deleterious, destructive, baneful, noxious, malicious, lethal

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