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accent

('/&/k,s/E/nt )

distinctive manner of oral expression(noun.communication)

Example:
He couldn't suppress his contemptuous accent.

Synonym:
speech pattern

source: wordnet30
special importance or significance(noun.state)

Example:
The room was decorated in shades of grey with distinctive red accents.

Synonym:
emphasis

source: wordnet30
the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people(noun.communication)

Example:
He has a strong German accent.

Synonym:
dialect, idiom

source: wordnet30
the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch)(noun.communication)

Synonym:
emphasis, stress

source: wordnet30
a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation(noun.communication)

Synonym:
accent mark

source: wordnet30
A superior force of voice or of articulative effort upon some particular syllable of a word or a phrase, distinguishing it from the others.(noun)

source: webster1913

to stress, single out as important(verb.communication)

Synonym:
accentuate, emphasise, emphasize, punctuate, stress

source: wordnet30
put stress on; utter with an accent(verb.communication)

Example:
In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word.

Synonym:
accentuate, stress

source: wordnet30
To express the accent of (either by the voice or by a mark); to utter or to mark with accent.(verb)

source: webster1913

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