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Vowelize

To give the quality, sound, or office of a vowel to.

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Articulate 76% connected

Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars.

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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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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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Say 76% connected

Saw.

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Vocalize 92% connected

To form into voice; to make vocal or sonant; to give intonation or resonance to.

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A unknown · 78% connection

The first letter of the English and of many other alphabets. The capital A of the alphabets of Middle and Western Europe, as also the…

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Ablaut noun · 78% connection

The substitution of one root vowel for another, thus indicating a corresponding modification of use or meaning; vowel permutation; as,…

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Accent noun · 78% connection

A mark or character used in writing, and serving to regulate the pronunciation; esp.: (a) a mark to indicate the nature and place of t…

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Asper noun · 78% connection

The rough breathing; a mark (/) placed over an initial vowel sound or over / to show that it is aspirated, that is, pronounced with h…

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Aspirate noun · 78% connection

A sound consisting of, or characterized by, a breath like the sound of h; the breathing h or a character representing such a sound; an…

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Augment noun · 78% connection

A vowel prefixed, or a lengthening of the initial vowel, to mark past time, as in Greek and Sanskrit verbs.

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Central vowel noun · 78% connection

(linguistics) any vowel sound in which the tongue is positioned halfway between a front vowel and a back vowel.; "In practice, unround…

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Consonant noun · 78% connection

An articulate sound which in utterance is usually combined and sounded with an open sound called a vowel; a member of the spoken alpha…

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Diphthong noun · 78% connection

a vowel sound that starts near the articulatory position for one vowel and moves toward the position for another

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Diphthongize v. t. & i. · 78% connection

To change into a diphthong, as by affixing another vowel to a simple vowel.

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Ecthlipsis noun · 78% connection

The elision of a final m, with the preceding vowel, before a word beginning with a vowel.

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Elison noun · 78% connection

The cutting off or suppression of a vowel or syllable, for the sake of meter or euphony; esp., in poetry, the dropping of a final vowe…

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Epenthesis noun · 78% connection

the insertion of a vowel or consonant into a word to make its pronunciation easier; "the insertion of a vowel in the plural of the wor…

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Glide noun · 78% connection

A transitional sound in speech which is produced by the changing of the mouth organs from one definite position to another, and with g…

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Gyve verb · 78% connection

To fetter; to shackle; to chain. H () the eighth letter of the English alphabet, is classed among the consonants, and is formed with t…

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Heavy syllable noun · 78% connection

a syllable with a branching nucleus or a branching rime.; "A heavy syllable consists of a long vowel or a diphthong, or a short vowel…

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Light syllable noun · 78% connection

a syllable with a short vowel as the nucleus and no coda.; "A light syllable consists of a single short vowel in an open syllable."

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Long noun · 78% connection

A long sound, syllable, or vowel.

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