accent
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(noun) a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or (in some languages) placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation |
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Synonyms: accent mark |
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Related Words: acute, acute accent, ague, diacritic, diacritical mark, grave, grave accent, stress mark |
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(noun) distinctive manner of oral expression; "he couldn't suppress his contemptuous accent"; "she had a very clear speech pattern" |
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Synonyms: speech pattern |
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Related Words: drawl, pronunciation |
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(verb) put stress on; utter with an accent |
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Synonyms: stress |
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Related Words: articulate, enounce, enunciate, pronounce, say |
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(noun) special importance or significance; "the red light gave the central figure increased emphasis"; "the room was decorated in shades of gray with distinctive red accents" |
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Synonyms: emphasis |
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Related Words: focus, grandness, importance, stress |
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(noun) the relative prominence of a syllable (especially with regard to stress or pitch); "he put the stress on the wrong syllable" |
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Synonyms: accentuation, emphasis, stress |
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Related Words: inflection, pitch accent, prosody, sentence stress, tonic accent, word accent, word stress |
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(noun) the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people; "the immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English"; "he has a strong German accent" |
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Synonyms: dialect, idiom |
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Related Words: non-standard speech, patois |
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(verb) to stress, single out as important: "Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet." |
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Synonyms: accentuate, emphasize, punctuate, stress |
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Related Words: bear down, drive home, emphasize, evince, express, point up, press home, re-emphasise, re-emphasize, show, underline, underscore |
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(verb) direct attention to, as if by means of contrast; "This dress accentuates your nice figure!" "I set off these words by brackets" |
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Synonyms: accentuate, bring out, emphasize, set off, stress |
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Related Words: alter, background, change, foreground, highlight, pick up, play down, play up, raise, spotlight |
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