lay it on thick

Strong matches

• act
• adopt
• assume
• bluff
• contrive
• counterfeit
• fake
• feign
• playact
• sham
• simulate

Weak matches

• aspire to
• do a bit
• make out like
• put on
• put up a front
• take on

Weak matches

• adulate
• bootlick
• brown-nose
• build up
• cajole
• flatter
• inveigle
• massage
• play up to
• soften
• spread it on
• stroke
• suck up to
• sweet-talk
• work on

Strongest matches

• deceive
• delude
• dupe
• entice
• entrap
• seduce
• tantalize
• tempt
• wheedle

Strong matches

• banter
• beguile
• blandish
• bootlick
• con
• induce
• influence
• inveigle
• jolly
• lure
• maneuver
• mislead
• oil
• push
• snow
• soap
• soft-soap
• soften
• stroke
• sweet-talk
• urge

Weak matches

• apple-polish
• argue into
• brown-nose
• butter up
• get around
• get next to
• hand a line
• make up to
• play up to
• rub the right way
• spread it on
• suck up to
• sweeten up
• work on
• work over

Strongest matches

• amplify
• distort
• emphasize
• fabricate
• falsify
• heighten
• inflate
• magnify
• misrepresent
• overdo
• overdraw
• overemphasize
• overestimate

Strong matches

• boast
• boost
• brag
• caricature
• color
• corrupt
• embroider
• enlarge
• exalt
• expand
• fudge
• hike
• hyperbolize
• intensify
• lie
• misquote
• pad
• puff
• pyramid
• romance
• romanticize
• scam
• stretch
• up

Weak matches

• blow out of proportion
• build up
• cook up
• go to extremes
• loud talk
• make too much of
• misreport
• pretty up
• put on

Strongest match

• charm

Strong matches

• adulate
• blandish
• bootlick
• cajole
• con
• court
• fawn
• glorify
• grovel
• humor
• inveigle
• jolly
• oil
• overpraise
• praise
• salve
• sell
• snow
• soft-soap
• soften
• stroke
• sweet-talk
• toady
• wheedle

Weak matches

• brown-nose
• build up
• butter up
• cater to
• get next to
• play up to
• rub the right way
• spread it on
• suck up to
• sweeten up
• work on
• work over

Strong matches

• allure
• bait
• bamboozle
• beguile
• blandish
• cajole
• charm
• coax
• con
• decoy
• ensnare
• entrap
• hook
• influence
• jolly
• lure
• maneuver
• massage
• oil
• persuade
• seduce
• snow
• soft-soap
• stroke
• tempt
• urge
• wheedle

Weak matches

• egg on
• get around
• lead on
• play up to
• rope in
• soften up
• string along
• sweet-talk
• work over

Strongest matches

• exaggerate
• maximize
• overdo
• overemphasize
• overstate
• overuse

Strong matches

• accent
• accentuate
• dramatize
• hyperbolize
• magnify
• mug
• overact
• overdraw
• overstress
• overwork
• stretch

Weak matches

• blow out of proportion
• get carried away
• ham it up
• labor at
• point up
• show off

Strongest matches

• amplify
• emphasize
• heighten
• inflate
• magnify
• misrepresent
• overdo
• overemphasize
• overestimate

Strong matches

• boast
• boost
• brag
• embellish
• embroider
• enlarge
• exalt
• expand
• fabricate
• fudge
• hike
• lie
• misquote
• pad
• puff

Weak matches

• blow out of proportion
• build up
• misreport
• play up

Strong matches

• adulate
• blandish
• bootlick
• cajole
• charm
• con
• court
• fawn
• glorify
• grovel
• humor
• inveigle
• jolly
• massage
• oil
• overpraise
• praise
• salve
• sell
• soft-soap
• soften
• stroke
• toady
• wheedle

Weak matches

• brown-nose
• build up
• butter up
• cater to
• get next to
• play up to
• rub the right way
• spread it on
• suck up to
• sweeten up
• work on
• work over