Ascend
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To go up, to fly, to soar.
Example sentence: It's very difficult to choose my favorite song because every night I do a show I find that sometimes one song will ascend higher than the others.
Rise
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The action of moving upwards.An increase (in a quantity, price, etc); a raise.The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.An increase in someone's pay rate.A small hill (chiefly place names).
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To move upwards.To appear to move upwards from behind the horizon of a planet as a result of the planet's rotationTo be resurrectedof a quantity, price, etc, To increase.
Example sentence: From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.