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accents
verb(ac-cent)to give special attention or prominence to (something) : to make (something) more emphatic, noticeable, or distinct
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verb(ac-cent)to pronounce (part of a word) with greater stress or force : stress
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verb(ac-cent)to mark with a written or printed accent
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noun(ac-cent)an effort in speech to stress one syllable over adjacent syllables; also : the stress thus given a syllable
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noun(ac-cent)a distinctive manner of expression: such as
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noun(ac-cent)a way of speaking typical of a particular group of people and especially of the natives or residents of a region
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noun(ac-cent)relative phonetic prominence (as from greater stress or higher pitch) of a spoken syllable or word
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noun(ac-cent)accent depending on pitch rather than stress