Term: escalation: an increase to counteract a perceived discrepancy
Broader: increase: the act of increasing something | Unrelated: spaghetti sauce: any of numerous sauces for spaghetti or other kinds of pasta
Broader: increase: the act of increasing something | Unrelated: bachelor of theology: a bachelor's degree in theology
Broader: increase: the act of increasing something | Unrelated: rationalization: (mathematics) the simplification of an expression or equation by eliminating radicals without changing the value of the expression or the roots of the equation
Broader: increase: the act of increasing something | Unrelated: leonurus: genus of stout Old World herbs having flowers in whorls
Broader: increase: the act of increasing something | Unrelated: drumhead: a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum
Broader: increase: the act of increasing something | Unrelated: decomposition: the analysis of a vector field
Broader: increase: the act of increasing something | Unrelated: radio brightness: the strength of a radio wave picked up by a radio telescope
Broader: increase: the act of increasing something | Unrelated: red herring: a dried and smoked herring having a reddish color
Broader: increase: the act of increasing something | Unrelated: florest's cineraria: herb derived from Pericallis cruenta and widely cultivated in a variety of profusely flowering forms with florets from white to pink to red or purple or violet or blue
Broader: increase: the act of increasing something | Unrelated: nyssaceae: a family of dicotyledonous trees of order Myrtales that includes the sour gum trees