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See: accrue, accumulate, advance, bear, build, compound, elevate, empower, enhance, enlarge, expand, extend, honor, increase, inflate, magnify, overestimate, promote, raise, yield How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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rhetorical, populism aggrandizes words to exaggerate their referents,
like Jukka being kind or Turkey taking over Europe, and thus divides the
masses with love or fear. Execution: A spot that aggrandizes Pitt's celebrity more than
the beer. The depiction of Henrician religion as a
repetition of ancient imperial cult again aggrandizes the king's
secular power, attenuating the hold of Christianity over him by likening
him again to unchristian Roman emperors. |
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