Today's Word "extol"
To praise highly
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extol \ik-STOHL\ (transitive verb) - To praise highly; to glorify; to exalt.
"To praise the South was to praise himself; to boast of its valor was to advertise his own intrepidity; to extol its women was to enhance the glory of his own achievements in the lists of love; to vanut its chivalry was to avouch his own honor; to laud its greatness was to extol himself." -- Albion W. Tourgee, 'Bricks Without Straw'
Extol derives from Latin extollere, "to lift up, praise," from ex-, "up from" + tollere, "to lift up, elevate."
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