Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Word Stress
Word Stress
Word Stress
supreme
semester
giraffe
subsidiary
acknowledge
manufacture
photosynthesis
departmental
parliamentary
propaganda
opportunity
equilibrium
scientific
sail
hold
cent
may
get
can
tame
whole
seal
2. Multi-syllable words
- with two or more syllables
- have only one strong stress
- strongly-stressed syllable in the
words are spoken louder, longer, and
clearer than the rest of the
unstressed syllables
Exercise 2. Stress only the first syllable of each
word.
notice
transferable
urchin
oratory
titan
participle
vivid
voluntary
taffeta
notary
Vatican
profile
mechanize
matinee
supervise
origin
survive
original
obscure
variety
retrench
particular
misrepresent
contemporary
superimpose
pronunciation
misunderstand
temperamental
accommodation
prevarication
authoritarian
extemporaneous
alliteration
socialization
indemnification
extemporization
indispensability
capitalization
indiscrimination
inevitability
syllable
ostracize
parliament
vegetable
horizon
accustom
abundance
Verb - Noun
discount
desert
export
incline
excerpt
pervert