applaud
to clap or express approval
Root
- plaud / plaus: clap, applaud, approve, or seem acceptable
Other words with the plaud / plaus root
- applause: clapping or public approval
- implausible: not seeming reasonable or believable
- plaudit: praise or enthusiastic approval
- plausibility: quality of seeming reasonable or believable
- plausible: seeming reasonable or believable
Applaud starts with clapping: approval you can hear.
The audience applauded the speaker before the final slide appeared.
Applaud belongs beside laud in meaning, but it has its own clap/approval family: applause, plaudit, and plausible all keep a trace of what people accept or approve.