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accent

/'æksɛnt/

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noun
special importance or significance
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"the room was decorated in shades of grey with distinctive red accents"

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emphasis

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grandness importance
verb
to stress, single out as important
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accentuate emphasise emphasize punctuate stress

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evince show express
noun
distinctive manner of oral expression
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"he couldn't suppress his contemptuous accent"

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speech pattern

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pronunciation
noun
the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch)
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emphasis stress

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prosody inflection
noun
the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
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"he has a strong German accent"

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dialect idiom

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non-standard speech
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a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation
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accent mark

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diacritic diacritical mark
verb
put stress on; utter with an accent
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"In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word"

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accentuate stress

type of:
articulate enounce sound out enunciate say pronounce

Words sounding like good accent

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