Extol By Deane Barker • September 8, 2021 • Definition: to praise highly; exalt Why I Looked It Up I was having a phone call with my boss. He asked me to write a blog post to “extol” some aspect of our product. We suddenly had a moment of doubt about the word – did we mean “exalt”? Or was it “eS-tol”? So, we looked it up.