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| Word | Syllables | Categories |
|---|---|---|
| trouble | /x | Verb, Verb |
| pain | / | Verb, Verb |
| ail | / | Verb, Verb |
| smite | / | Verb, Verb |
| plaguing | /x | Verb |
| besetting | x/x | Verb |
| affecting | x/x | Verb |
| ravaging | /xx | Noun |
| infecting | x/x | Noun |
| affliction | x/x | Noun |
| engulfing | x/x | Noun |
| impacting | x/x | Verb |
| prevalent | /xx | Adjective |
| malady | /xx | Noun |
| pervading | x/x | Adjective |
| tormenting | /xx | Adjective |
| crippling | /xx | Noun |
| occurring | x/x | Verb |
| inflicting | x/x | Verb |
| permeating | /xxx | Verb |
| terrorizing | /xxx | Verb |
| vexing | /x | Adjective |
| besieging | x/x | Verb |
| preventing | x/x | Verb |
| effecting | x/x | Verb |
| benefiting | /xxx | Verb |
| debilitating | x/xxx | Adjective |
| oppressing | x/x | Verb |
| hampering | /xx | Verb |
| enveloping | x/xx | Noun |
| dealing | /x | Verb |
| ailment | /x | Noun |
| stricken | /x | Adjective |
| paralyzing | /xxx | Noun |
| remedying | /xxx | Verb |
| involving | x/x | Verb |
| harming | /x | Verb |
| alleviating | x/xxx | Verb |
| causing | /x | Verb |
| endemic | x/x | Adjective |
| confronting | x/x | Verb |
| surrounding | x/x | Verb |
| exacerbating | x/xxx | Verb |
| burdening | /xx | Verb |
| symptomatic | xx/x | Adjective |
| manifesting | /xxx | Verb |
| impairing | x/x | Verb |
| aggravating | /xxx | Adjective |
| hindering | /xx | Verb |
| incapacitating | xx/xxx | Adjective |
| hurting | /x | Verb |
| subduing | x/x | Verb |
| inhabiting | x/xx | Verb |
| relieving | x/x | Verb |
| paralysing | x/xx | Noun |
| extricating | /xxx | Verb |
| destroying | x/x | Verb |
| rife | / | Adjective |
| encompassing | x/xx | Adjective |
| treating | /x | Verb |
| punishing | /xx | Verb |
| battling | /xx | Verb |
| ameliorating | x/xxx | Verb |
| characterizing | /xxxx | Verb |
| corroding | x/x | Noun |
| worsening | /xx | Verb |
| implicating | /xxx | Verb |
| experiencing | x/xxx | Verb |
| suffering | /xx | Noun |
| blaming | /x | Verb |
| encountering | x/xx | Verb |
| damaging | /xx | Adjective |
| distressing | x/x | Adjective |
| sapping | /x | Verb |
| inducing | x/x | Adjective |
| devouring | x/xx | Verb |
| addressing | x/x | Verb |
| annihilating | x/xxx | Verb |
| undermining | /xxx | Noun |
| alienating | /xxxx | Verb |
| emanating | /xxx | Verb |
| exploiting | /xx | Verb |
| impeding | x/x | Verb |
| banishing | /xx | Verb |
| creeping | /x | Verb |
| combating | x/x | Verb |
| displacing | x/x | Verb |
| uniting | x/x | Verb |
| pestilence | /xx | Noun |
| corrupting | x/x | Noun |
| depriving | x/x | Verb |
| targeting | /xx | Verb |
| festering | /xx | Adjective |
| wracking | /x | Noun |
| persisting | x/x | Verb |
| offing | /x | Noun |
| enslaving | x/x | Noun |
| bothering | /xx | Verb |
| relating | x/x | Verb |
| attacking | x/x | Verb |
| poisoning | /xx | Noun |
| ills | / | Noun |
| rampant | /x | Adjective |
| predisposing | xx/x | Adjective |
| riddled | /x | Verb |
| transforming | x/x | Noun |
| happening | /xx | Verb |
| harrowing | /xx | Noun |
| sore | / | Adjective |
| scourge | / | Noun |
| foreboding | x/x | Noun |
| most | / | Adjective |
| comforting | /xx | Verb |
| politic | /xx | Adjective |
| mankind | // | Noun |
| quieted | /xx | Verb |
| abide | x/ | Verb |
| absorbing | x/x | Adjective |
| abstruse | x/ | Adjective |
| academicians | xxx/x | Noun |
| accrue | x/ | Verb, Noun |
| accumulating | x/xxx | Verb, Noun |
| acrimony | /xxx | Noun |
| actresses | /xx | Noun |
| adhering | x/x | Verb |
| admiring | x/x | Noun, Adjective |
| adoring | x/x | Adjective, Noun |
| alarming | x/x | Adjective |
| awful | /x | Adjective, Adverb |
| bashing | /x | Noun |
| boating | /x | Noun |
| bodily | /xx | Noun, Adverb, Adjective |
| cheerful | /x | Adjective |
| criminal | /xx | Adjective, Noun |
| deplorable | x/xx | Adjective, Noun |
| depressing | x/x | Adjective |
| deserving | x/x | Noun, Adjective |
| disheartening | x/xx | Adjective |
| dispiriting | x/xx | Adjective |
| dreadful | /x | Adjective, Adverb, Noun |
| facing | /x | Adjective, Noun |
| fraught | / | Adjective, Noun, Verb |
| gripping | /x | Adjective, Noun |
| hitting | /x | Noun |
| humiliating | x/xxx | Adjective, Noun |
| junkies | /x | Noun |
| knocking | /x | Noun |
| melancholy | /xxx | Noun, Adjective |
| mortifying | /xxx | Adjective, Noun |
| novel | /x | Noun, Adjective |
| painful | /x | Adjective |
| pleasing | /x | Noun, Adjective |
| prevailing | x/x | Adjective |
| raging | /x | Adjective, Noun |
| sad | / | Adjective, Verb, Noun |
| shocking | /x | Adjective, Noun |
| touching | /x | Adjective, Noun |
| traversing | x/x | Noun |
| unsettling | x/xx | Adjective, Noun |
| upsetting | x/x | Adjective, Noun |
| die | / | Verb, Noun |
| bulletproof | /xx | Adjective, Verb |
| shirtless | /x | Adjective |
| fall | / | Verb, Noun |
