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Accent

A superior force of voice or of articulative effort upon some particular syllable of a word or a phrase, distinguishing it from the others.

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Narrower term 7

Accentuation 76% connected

Act of accentuating; applications of accent.

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Acute 76% connected

Sharp at the end; ending in a sharp point; pointed; -- opposed to blunt or obtuse; as, an acute angle; an acute leaf.

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Drawl 76% connected

To utter in a slow, lengthened tone.

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Focus 76% connected

A point in which the rays of light meet, after being reflected or refrcted, and at which the image is formed; as, the focus of a lens or mirror.

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Grave 76% connected

To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch; -- so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for t…

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Patois 76% connected

A dialect peculiar to the illiterate classes; a provincial form of speech.

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Stress 76% connected

Distress.

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Broader term 14

Articulate 76% connected

Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars.

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Diacritic 76% connected

Alt. of Diacritical

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Enounce 76% connected

To announce; to declare; to state, as a proposition or argument.

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Enunciate 76% connected

To make a formal statement of; to announce; to proclaim; to declare, as a truth.

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Evince 76% connected

To conquer; to subdue.

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Express 76% connected

Exactly representing; exact.

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Grandness 76% connected

Grandeur.

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Importance 76% connected

The quality or state of being important; consequence; weight; moment; significance.

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Inflection 76% connected

The act of inflecting, or the state of being inflected.

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Pronounce 76% connected

To utter articulately; to speak out or distinctly; to utter, as words or syllables; to speak with the proper sound and accent as, adults rarely learn…

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Pronunciation 76% connected

The act of uttering with articulation; the act of giving the proper sound and accent; utterance; as, the pronunciation of syllables of words; distinc…

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Prosody 76% connected

That part of grammar which treats of the quantity of syllables, of accent, and of the laws of versification or metrical composition.

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Say 76% connected

Saw.

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Show 76% connected

To exhibit or present to view; to place in sight; to display; -- the thing exhibited being the object, and often with an indirect object denoting the…

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Manner of action 5

Background 76% connected

Ground in the rear or behind, or in the distance, as opposed to the foreground, or the ground in front.

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Emphasise 76% connected

To make a point stand out as especially important.

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Emphasize 76% connected

To utter or pronounce with a particular stress of voice; to make emphatic; as, to emphasize a word or a phrase.

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Underline 76% connected

To mark a line below, as words; to underscore.

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Underscore 76% connected

To draw a mark or line under; to underline.

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Accentual 74% connected

Of or pertaining to accent; characterized or formed by accent.

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Accentual 74% connected

Of or pertaining to accent; characterized or formed by accent.

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Accentuate 74% connected

To pronounce with an accent or with accents.

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Accentuate 74% connected

To pronounce with an accent or with accents.

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Accentuation 74% connected

Act of accentuating; applications of accent.

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Accentuation 74% connected

Act of accentuating; applications of accent.

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Dialect 74% connected

Means or mode of expressing thoughts; language; tongue; form of speech.

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Dialect 74% connected

Means or mode of expressing thoughts; language; tongue; form of speech.

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Emphatic 74% connected

Alt. of Emphatical

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Emphatic 74% connected

Alt. of Emphatical

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Punctuate 74% connected

To mark with points; to separate into sentences, clauses, etc., by points or stops which mark the proper pauses in expressing the meaning.

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Punctuate 74% connected

To mark with points; to separate into sentences, clauses, etc., by points or stops which mark the proper pauses in expressing the meaning.

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Stress 74% connected

Distress.

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Stress 74% connected

Distress.

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Synonym 8

Accentuate 92% connected

To pronounce with an accent or with accents.

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Dialect 92% connected

Means or mode of expressing thoughts; language; tongue; form of speech.

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Emphasis 92% connected

A particular stress of utterance, or force of voice, given in reading and speaking to one or more words whose signification the speaker intends to im…

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Emphasise 92% connected

To make a point stand out as especially important.

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Emphasize 92% connected

To utter or pronounce with a particular stress of voice; to make emphatic; as, to emphasize a word or a phrase.

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Idiom 92% connected

The syntactical or structural form peculiar to any language; the genius or cast of a language.

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Punctuate 92% connected

To mark with points; to separate into sentences, clauses, etc., by points or stops which mark the proper pauses in expressing the meaning.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Stress 92% connected

Distress.

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