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| accent, speech pattern | (n.) | distinctive manner of oral expression.; "he couldn't suppress his contemptuous accent"; "she had a very clear speech pattern" |
| accent, emphasis | (n.) | special importance or significance.; "the red light gave the central figure increased emphasis"; "the room was decorated in shades of grey with distinctive red accents" |
| accent, dialect, idiom | (n.) | 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"; "it has been said that a language is a dialect with an army and navy" |
| accent, emphasis, stress | (n.) | the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch).; "he put the stress on the wrong syllable" |
| accent, accent mark | (n.) | a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation. |
| accent, accentuate, emphasise, emphasize, punctuate, stress | (v.) | to stress, single out as important.; "Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet" |
| accent, accentuate, stress | (v.) | put stress on; utter with an accent.; "In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word" |
