Noun

• S: (n) boast, boasting, self-praise, jactitation (speaking of yourself in superlatives)
• direct hyponym / full hyponym
• S: (n) brag, bragging, crow, crowing, vaporing, line-shooting, gasconade (an instance of boastful talk) "his brag is worse than his fight"; "whenever he won we were exposed to his gasconade"
• S: (n) braggadocio, bluster, rodomontade, rhodomontade (vain and empty boasting)
• S: (n) vaunt (extravagant self-praise)
• S: (n) self-assertion (the act of putting forth your own opinions in a boastful or inconsiderate manner that implies you feel superior to others)
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) speech act (the use of language to perform some act)
• S: (n) congratulation, felicitation (the act of acknowledging that someone has an occasion for celebration)
• S: (n) slander (words falsely spoken that damage the reputation of another)
• S: (n) proposal, proposition (the act of making a proposal) "they listened to her proposal"
• S: (n) command, bid, bidding, dictation (an authoritative direction or instruction to do something)
• S: (n) agreement (the verbal act of agreeing)
• S: (n) citation ((law) the act of citing (as of spoken words or written passages or legal precedents etc.))
• S: (n) disagreement (the speech act of disagreeing or arguing or disputing)
• S: (n) offer, offering (the verbal act of offering) "a generous offer of assistance"
• S: (n) request, asking (the verbal act of requesting)
• S: (n) reply, response (the speech act of continuing a conversational exchange) "he growled his reply"
• S: (n) description (the act of describing something)
• S: (n) affirmation, assertion, statement (the act of affirming or asserting or stating something)
• S: (n) denial (the act of refusing to comply (as with a request)) "it resulted in a complete denial of his privileges"
• S: (n) rejection (the speech act of rejecting)
• S: (n) objection (the speech act of objecting)
• S: (n) informing, making known (a speech act that conveys information)
• S: (n) disclosure, revelation, revealing (the speech act of making something evident)
• S: (n) promise (a verbal commitment by one person to another agreeing to do (or not to do) something in the future)
• S: (n) boast, boasting, self-praise, jactitation (speaking of yourself in superlatives)
• S: (n) naming (the verbal act of naming) "the part he failed was the naming of state capitals"
• S: (n) challenge (a call to engage in a contest or fight)
• S: (n) explanation (the act of explaining; making something plain or intelligible) "I heard his explanation of the accident"
• S: (n) denunciation, denouncement (a public act of denouncing)
• S: (n) address, speech (the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience) "he listened to an address on minor Roman poets"
• S: (n) resignation (the act of giving up (a claim or office or possession etc.))
• derivationally related form