boasts

Strongest match

• bluster

Strong matches

• avowal
• bombast
• braggadocio
• bravado
• exaggeration
• gasconade
• grandiloquence
• heroics
• joy
• pretension
• pride
• self-satisfaction
• swank
• treasure
• vaunt

Weak match

• pride and joy

Strongest match

• advertise

Strong matches

• aggrandize
• blow
• bluster
• bully
• cock-a-doodle-doo
• con
• crow
• exaggerate
• exult
• fake
• flaunt
• flourish
• gasconade
• gloat
• glory
• grandstand
• jive
• prate
• preen
• puff
• shoot
• shovel
• showboat
• shuck
• sling
• strut
• swagger
• triumph
• vapor

Weak matches

• attract attention
• blow one's own horn
• blow smoke
• congratulate oneself
• flatter oneself
• give a good account of oneself
• hug oneself
• lay on thick
• psych
• show off
• sound off
• talk big

Strongest matches

• claim
• exhibit
• own
• possess

Weak matches

• be proud of
• have in keeping
• pride oneself on
• show off