laud

• acclaim
• acclamation
• accolade
• accredit
• admire
• adore
• adulate
• applaud
• applause
• approve
• ballyhoo
• belaud
• bless
• boost
• bravo
• build up
• carol
• celebrate
• celebrity
• chant
• cheer
• citation
• cite
• clap
• commend
• commendation
• compliment
• crack up
• credit
• cry up
• deify
• distinction
• elevation
• emblazon
• encomium
• endorse
• enshrinement
• enthronement
• eulogize
• eulogy
• exalt
• exaltation
• extol
• extoll
• fame
• favor
• flatter
• glorification
• glorify
• glory
• hail
• hand it to
• homage
• honor
• hymn
• idolize
• indorse
• kudo
• kudos
• laurels
• magnify
• note
• ovation
• overpraise
• panegyric
• panegyrize
• pat on the back
• plaudit
• praise
• props
• rave
• recommend
• recommendation
• renown
• repute
• resound
• revere
• reverence
• rhapsodize
• rhapsody
• salute
• sing
• sing the praises of
• stroke
• sun
• support
• toast
• tout
• tribute
• venerate
• worship

• abhor
• admonish
• belittle
• blame
• castigate
• censure
• chide
• condemn
• criticize
• decrease
• denounce
• despise
• detest
• disallow
• disapprove
• discommend
• disparage
• excoriate
• hate
• keelhaul
• knock
• lambast
• lambaste
• pan
• put down
• rebuke
• refuse
• reprehend
• reprimand
• reproach
• reprobate
• reprove
• skewer
• slag
• slam
• vilify

• noun
  1. Praise or glorification.
  2. Hymn of praise.
  3. (in the plural, also Lauds) A prayer service following matins.
• verb
  1. To praise, to glorify.

• The critics were quick to laud her exceptional performance in the play.
• He was lauded for his dedication to environmental causes.
• The professor took a moment to laud the students' hard work throughout the semester.
• The media lauded the team's efforts after their victory in the championship.
• It's important to laud the achievements of those who work tirelessly behind the scenes.

accept

• OK
• abide
• absorb
• accede
• acclaim
• account
• accredit
• acknowledge
• acquiesce
• acquire
• admit
• adopt
• advocate
• affirm
• agree
• agree to
• allow
• applaud
• approbate
• approve
• assent
• assume
• avow
• back
• bear
• bear with
• believe
• bide
• bow
• brook
• buy
• capitulate
• champion
• check out
• commend
• comply
• conclude
• concur with
• confirm
• consent
• cooperate with
• countenance
• credit
• deduce
• defer to
• embrace
• endorse
• endure
• enjoy
• espouse
• fancy
• favor
• fit in
• gain
• get
• give stamp of approval
• give the go-ahead
• give the green light
• give the nod
• go
• go along with
• go for
• hack
• handle
• have
• hold
• hold with
• indorse
• infer
• lap up
• laud
• like
• live with
• meet
• obtain
• okay
• permit
• play the game
• pocket
• praise
• presume
• ratify
• reaccept
• reassume
• receive
• recognize
• recommend
• relish
• respect
• rubber-stamp
• salute
• sanction
• secure
• set store by
• set store on
• shoulder
• sign
• sign off on
• sit still for
• stand
• stand by
• stand for
• stick out
• stomach
• submit to
• suffer
• support
• suppose
• sustain
• swallow
• sweat out
• take
• take as gospel truth
• take kindly to
• take on
• take one up on
• take over
• take stock in
• take up
• thumbs-up
• tolerate
• tough it out
• trust
• understand
• undertake
• uphold
• warrant
• wear
• welcome
• yield to

accepted

• abided
• abode
• absorbed
• acceded
• acclaimed
• accounted
• accredited
• accustomed
• acknowledged
• acquiesced
• actual
• adopted
• advocated
• agreed
• allowed
• applauded
• approved
• arrived at
• assented
• assumed
• authorized
• backed
• believed
• bided
• bode
• bore
• bought
• brooked
• capitulated
• card-carrying
• ceremonial
• ceremonious
• certified
• championed
• chosen
• commended
• concluded
• confirmed
• consented
• conventional
• correct
• countenanced
• credited
• current
• customary
• decorous
• deduced
• demonstrable
• embraced
• empiric
• empirical
• endorsed
• endured
• enjoyed
• espoused
• established
• existential
• experiential
• experimental
• factual
• fashionable
• favored
• formal
• formalistic
• genteel
• genuine
• hacked
• had
• handled
• hard
• held with
• in vogue
• indisputable
• indorsed
• inferred
• kosher
• lauded
• legit
• liked
• lived with
• material
• met
• methodic
• methodical
• nice
• normal
• objective
• observational
• official
• okayed
• orderly
• orthodox
• passed
• permitted
• pocketed
• polite
• popular
• praised
• preferred
• presumed
• proper
• provable
• ratified
• reaccepted
• real
• reassumed
• received
• recognized
• recommended
• regular
• respectable
• respected
• ritual
• ritualistic
• routine
• saluted
• sanctioned
• seemly
• set store by
• set store on
• shouldered
• standard
• stomached
• stood
• stood by
• stood for
• straight
• stuck out
• suffered
• supported
• supposed
• sustained
• swallowed
• sweat out
• sweated out
• systematic
• time-honored
• tolerated
• took
• took kindly to
• took over
• took up
• toughed it out
• touted
• tried
• tried-and-true
• trusted
• undeniable
• understood
• undertook
• universal
• unopposed
• upheld
• usual
• verifiable
• warranted
• welcomed
• went
• went for
• wore

accepting

• abiding
• abject
• absorbing
• acceding
• acceptance
• acceptive
• acclaiming
• accord
• accounting
• accrediting
• acknowledgment
• acquiescence
• acquiescing
• acquiring
• acquisition
• admiring
• admission
• admitting
• adopting
• adoption
• adoring
• adulatory
• advisory
• advocating
• affirmation
• affirming
• agreeing
• agreement
• allowing
• altering
• amenable
• applauding
• applying
• appreciative
• approbatory
• appropriation
• approval
• approving
• arrogation
• artless
• assent
• assenting
• assuming
• assurance
• attending
• attentive
• attestation
• authenticating
• authentication
• authorization
• authorizing
• avowal
• backing
• bearing
• becoming
• belief
• believing
• biding
• bleak
• blue
• born yesterday
• bringing in
• brokenhearted
• brooking
• buying
• capitulating
• certain
• certainty
• championing
• cheerless
• childlike
• collecting
• comfortless
• commendatory
• commending
• compliance
• complimentary
• concentrating
• concluding
• confidence
• confident
• confiding
• confirming
• conjecture
• consent
• consenting
• convinced
• cooperation
• corroborating
• corroboration
• countenancing
• credit
• crediting
• credulous
• crestfallen
• cynical
• dark
• deducing
• dejected
• demonstration
• dependence
• dependent
• depressed
• depressing
• desolate
• despairing
• desperate
• despondent
• disappointed
• disconsolate
• discouraged
• disheartened
• dismal
• dispirited
• doleful
• down
• downcast
• downhearted
• drawing
• drear
• dreary
• dupable
• earning
• easy mark
• embracing
• employing
• encomiastic
• endorsement
• endorsing
• enduring
• enjoying
• espousing
• eulogistic
• evidence
• expectation
• faith
• falling for
• fancy
• favorable
• favoring
• flattering
• forlorn
• friendly
• funereal
• gaining
• gathering
• getting
• gloomy
• glum
• go ahead
• going
• going for
• good
• grab
• green
• green light
• grieving
• growing
• guess
• guileless
• gullable
• gullible
• hacking
• hagiographic
• hagiographical
• handling
• hangdog
• having
• having faith
• hearkening
• heartbroken
• heartsick
• heartsore
• heeding
• holding with
• hopeful
• hopeless
• hunch
• hypothesis
• idolizing
• inconsolable
• indorsing
• inference
• inferring
• inheriting
• innocent
• interested
• joyless
• kind
• laudative
• laudatory
• lauding
• lenient
• liking
• living with
• low
• low-spirited
• magnanimous
• making
• meeting
• melancholy
• merciful
• miserable
• mournful
• naive
• nod
• obtaining
• okay
• okaying
• open
• open-minded
• overconfident
• overtrusting
• panegyrical
• passage
• passing
• paying attention
• permission
• permitting
• pessimistic
• pocketing
• posit
• positive
• postulate
• postulation
• practicing
• praiseful
• praising
• premise
• presuming
• presumption
• presupposition
• proof
• proving
• ratifying
• reaccepting
• reassuming
• receipt
• receiving
• reception
• recognition
• recommendatory
• recommending
• reliance
• reliant
• resigned
• respectful
• respecting
• sad
• saddened
• saluting
• sanction
• sanctioning
• secure
• securing
• seizure
• setting store by
• setting store on
• shot
• shot in the dark
• shouldering
• simple
• sneaking suspicion
• sorrowful
• sorry
• stab
• stamp of approval
• standing
• standing by
• standing for
• sticking out
• stock
• stomaching
• store
• submitting to
• substantiation
• succumbing
• suffering
• support
• supporting
• supportive
• supposal
• supposing
• supposition
• sure
• surmise
• suspicion
• sustaining
• swallow whole
• swallowing
• sweating out
• sympathetic
• taken in
• takeover
• taking
• taking kindly to
• taking on
• taking over
• taking up
• testament
• testimonial
• testimony
• testing
• theorization
• theory
• thesis
• tolerating
• toughing it out
• trustful
• trusting
• uncritical
• understanding
• undertaking
• undoubting
• unhappy
• unquestioning
• unsophisticated
• unsuspecting
• unsuspicious
• unwary
• upholding
• usurpation
• validating
• verification
• verifying
• visa
• wailing
• warm
• warrant
• warranting
• wearing
• weeping
• welcoming
• witness
• woebegone
• woeful
• working
• worshipful
• worshiping
• worshipping
• wretched
• yes

accepts

• OKs
• abides
• absorbs
• accedes
• acclaims
• accounts
• accredits
• acquiesces
• adopts
• advocates
• agrees
• allows
• applauds
• assents
• assumes
• backs
• bears
• believes
• bides
• brooks
• buys
• capitulates
• champions
• commends
• concludes
• confirms
• consents
• countenances
• credits
• deduces
• embraces
• endorses
• endures
• enjoys
• espouses
• favors
• goes
• goes for
• hacks
• handles
• has
• holds with
• indorses
• infers
• lauds
• likes
• lives with
• meets
• okays
• permits
• pockets
• praises
• presumes
• ratifies
• reaccepts
• reassumes
• recommends
• respects
• salutes
• sanctions
• sets store by
• sets store on
• shoulders
• stands
• stands by
• stands for
• sticks out
• stomachs
• suffers
• supports
• supposes
• sustains
• swallows
• sweats out
• takes
• takes kindly to
• takes over
• takes up
• tolerates
• toughs it out
• trusts
• understands
• undertakes
• upholds
• warrants
• wears
• welcomes

acclaim

• PR
• acclamation
• accolade
• accredit
• acknowledgment
• adulate
• applaud
• applause
• approbation
• approve
• ballyhoo
• belaud
• blow horn
• boost
• bravo
• celebrate
• celebration
• celebrity
• cheer
• cheering
• citation
• clap
• clapping
• commend
• commendation
• compliment
• crack up
• credit
• deify
• distinction
• elevation
• emblazon
• encomium
• endorse
• enshrinement
• enthronement
• eulogize
• eulogizing
• eulogy
• exalt
• exaltation
• extol
• extoll
• fame
• favor
• flatter
• give a bouquet
• give a posy
• give kudos
• glorification
• glorify
• glory
• hail
• hand it to
• hear it for
• homage
• honor
• idolize
• indorse
• kudo
• kudos
• laud
• laurels
• magnify
• note
• ovation
• overpraise
• panegyric
• pat on the back
• pat on the head
• plaudit
• plaudits
• praise
• props
• puff
• puff up
• pumping up
• push
• rave
• recognition
• recommend
• recommendation
• renown
• repute
• rhapsody
• root
• salute
• sing
• stroke
• strokes
• stroking
• sun
• support
• toast
• tout
• tribute

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