Magnify
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To make an object appear larger so one can see it in more detail, such as with a magnifying glass or a telescope. To make a situation or an idea appear greater or more important than it is.
Example sentence: Social media can help or hurt you. People are more into other people's lives than their own. Everyone sees everyone else's success online, and we allow it to magnify our own failure.
Amplify
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like;—used especially of loudspeakers, telescopes, microscopes, etc.To enlarge by addition or discussion; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand; to make much of.To increase the amplitude of something, especially of an electric current.
Example sentence: Politics is pop. Our job as comedians - especially me, as a late-night talk show, which is a broader audience - is to amplify what we think America is thinking.