plaudit
praise or enthusiastic approval
Root
- plaud / plaus: clap, applaud, approve, or seem acceptable
Other words with the plaud / plaus root
- applaud: to clap or express approval
- applause: clapping or public approval
- implausible: not seeming reasonable or believable
- plausibility: quality of seeming reasonable or believable
- plausible: seeming reasonable or believable
A plaudit is applause turned formal: public praise in a suit.
The modest researcher received plaudits for work she had done quietly for years.