adore vs hero-worship

adore and hero-worship both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
adore	No	No	Yes	No
hero-worship	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, hero-worship is a hyponym of adore; that is, hero-worship is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than adore:

adore: love intensely
hero-worship: love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol

Other hyponyms of adore include fetishize, idolise, idolize, revere, worship.

adore (verb)	hero-worship (verb)
love intensely	love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol