posturing, bravado, bombast, rhetoric, braggadocio, hyperbole, saber rattling, theatrics, grandiloquence, blather, belligerence, histrionics, brashness, nonsense, demagoguery, arrogance, platitudes, haughtiness, brinkmanship, cockiness, pugnaciousness, gamesmanship, affability, buffoonery, nastiness, cocksureness, swagger, boastfulness, protestations, hokum, machismo, gruffness, speechifying, cynicism, sloganeering, pomposity, bellicosity, doublespeak, pompousness, gimmickry, hectoring, cajolery, sanctimony, puffery, dissembling, bloviation, jingoism, clownishness, wishful thinking, mendacity, showboating, silliness, obnoxiousness, cravenness, chutzpah, sophistry, fulminations, sarcasm, truculence, imperiousness, politesse, superciliousness, insincerity, geniality, facetiousness, subterfuge, vitriol, invective, cunningness, razzmatazz, irascibility, amiability, chumminess, stubbornness, persiflage, prevarication, snippiness, stridency, bullheadedness, duplicity, shtick, pushiness, cussedness, baloney, vituperation, pragmatism, peevishness, standoffishness, obfuscation, imperturbability, jocularity, feistiness, pronouncements, prattle, bafflegab, puerility, emotionalism, acrimony, smugness, windbag, braggart, boasting, bragging, boast, affectation, heroics, brusqueness, horseplay, profanity, ebullience

crow, gloat, puff, triumph

in essence

act, amplify, behave, blast, blow, boast, boasting, confusion, do, exaggerate, fanfare, gust, hyperbolize, jactitation, magnify, ostentation, overdraw, overstate, self-praise

blow, boast, brag, braggadocio, bravado, gas, gasconade, rodomontade, shoot a line, swagger, swash, tout, vaunt