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Overact

To act or perform to excess to exaggerate in acting as he overacted his part

Magnification

The act of magnifying enlargement exaggeration

machismo

A strong and by some considered exaggerated sense of manly pride associated with an attitude that the proper expression of masculinity includes virility courage and

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jackboot tactics

bullying and militaristic tactics like those used in authoritarian or totalitarian countries used opprobriously and often in hyperbolic exaggeration of police tactics in democratic countries

Hysteria

A nervous affection occurring almost exclusively in women in which the emotional and reflex excitability is exaggerated and the will power correspondingly diminished so that the patient loses control over the emotions becomes the victim

Hyperbolize

To speak or write with exaggeration

Hotshot

highly skilled sometimes used ironically in reference to aggressive persons whose opinion of their own talents is considered exaggerated

Exaggeratory

Containing or tending to exaggeration exaggerative

Entonic

Having great tension or exaggerated action

Egotistic

Addicted to or manifesting egotism having an exaggerated view of ones own importance or good qualities

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