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| Word | Syllables | Categories |
|---|---|---|
| death penalty | //xx | Phrase, Noun |
| capital punishment | /xx/xx | Phrase, Noun |
| death warrant | //x | Phrase, Noun |
| life sentence | //x | Phrase, Noun |
| death | / | Noun |
| sentence | /x | Noun |
| needle | /x | Noun |
| doom | / | Noun |
| penalty | /xx | Noun |
| punishment | /xx | Noun |
| felony | /xx | Noun |
| attainder | x/x | Noun |
| guilty | /x | Adjective |
| dying declaration | /xxx/x | Phrase, Noun |
| fatality | x/xx | Noun |
| detention | x/x | Noun |
| killing | /x | Noun |
| criminal procedure | /xxx/x | Phrase, Noun |
| deadline | /x | Noun |
| manslaughter | /xx | Noun |
| death grip | // | Phrase, Noun |
| donatio mortis causa | x/x/x/x | Phrase, Noun |
| indictment | x/x | Noun |
| crucifixion | xx/x | Noun |
| crime against humanity | /x/x/xx | Phrase, Noun |
| conclusion | x/x | Noun |
| drop | / | Noun |
| war crime | // | Phrase, Noun |
| homicide | /xx | Noun |
| accidental death | xx/x/ | Phrase, Noun |
| electrocution | xxx/x | Noun |
| double jeopardy | /x/xx | Phrase, Noun |
| suicide | /xx | Noun |
| casualty | /xxx | Noun |
| bill of attainder | //x/x | Phrase, Noun |
| crime of passion | ///x | Phrase, Noun |
| accusation | xx/x | Noun |
| death squad | // | Phrase, Noun |
| arraignment | x/x | Noun |
| jury trial | /x/x | Phrase, Noun |
| lethal | /x | Adjective |
| bloodshed | /x | Noun |
| arrest | x/ | Noun |
| denunciation | xxx/x | Noun |
| utterance | /xx | Noun |
| death toll | // | Phrase, Noun |
| not guilty | //x | Phrase, Noun, Adjective |
| assassination | xxx/x | Noun |
| slaughter | /x | Noun |
| malice aforethought | /xx/x | Phrase, Noun |
| crime | / | Noun |
| coup de grâce | /x | Phrase, Noun |
| miscarriage of justice | x/x//x | Phrase, Noun |
| endangerment | x/xx | Noun |
| lynch law | // | Name, Name |
| involuntary manslaughter | x/xxx/xx | Phrase, Noun |
| ordeal | x/ | Noun |
| mort | / | Noun |
| stroke | / | Noun |
| acquittal | x/x | Noun |
| encounter | x/x | Noun |
| stay | / | Verb |
| summons | /x | Noun |
| hard labor | //x | Phrase, Noun |
| firing squad | /x/ | Phrase, Noun |
| retribution | xx/x | Noun |
| peine forte et dure | /xxxx | Phrase, Noun |
| wrongful death | /x/ | Phrase, Noun |
| perpetration | /x/x | Noun |
| death march | // | Name, Name |
| quartering | /xx | Noun |
| charge | / | Noun |
| mayhem | /x | Noun |
| trial by ordeal | /x/// | Phrase, Noun |
| liquidation | xx/x | Noun |
| impeachment | x/x | Noun |
| justifiable homicide | /xxxx/xx | Phrase, Noun |
| heat of passion | ///x | Phrase, Noun |
| hung jury | //x | Phrase, Noun |
| massacre | /xx | Noun |
| suicide pact | /xx/ | Phrase, Noun |
| mistrial | x/x | Noun |
| justice | /x | Noun |
| caution | /x | Noun |
| dismissal | x/x | Noun |
| defendant | x/x | Noun |
| suicide note | /xx/ | Phrase, Noun |
| coercion | x/x | Noun |
| malice | /x | Noun |
| trial by jury | /x//x | Phrase, Noun |
| corporal punishment | /xx/xx | Phrase, Noun |
| offense | x/ | Noun |
| no contest | //x | Phrase, Noun |
| crime against nature | /x//x | Phrase, Noun |
| bloodbath | /x | Noun |
| corpus delicti | /xx/x | Phrase, Noun |
| aggravated assault | /xxxx/ | Phrase, Noun |
| defense | x/ | Noun |
| kidnapping | /xx | Noun |
| stalking | /x | Noun |
| takedown | /x | Noun |
| mortal combat | /x/x | Phrase, Noun |
| crushing | /x | Verb |
| menace | /x | Noun |
| traffic ticket | /x/x | Phrase, Noun |
| misdemeanor | xx/x | Noun |
| complaint | x/ | Noun |
| cold case | // | Phrase, Noun |
| wound | / | Noun |
| demonstration | xx/x | Noun |
| accident | /xx | Noun, Adjective |
| actual | /xx | Adjective, Noun |
| adjudication | xxx/x | Noun |
| afterlife | /xx | Noun |
| agonising | /xxx | Noun, Adjective |
| agony | /xx | Noun |
| alive | x/ | Adjective |
| annihilation | xxx/x | Noun |
| apoptosis | xx/x | Noun |
| assent | x/ | Noun, Verb |
| award | x/ | Noun, Verb |
| awful | /x | Adjective, Adverb |
| barely | /x | Adverb |
| beat | / | Verb, Noun, Adjective |
| bereavement | x/x | Noun |
| biggie | /x | Noun |
| birth | / | Noun, Adjective, Verb |
| black | / | Adjective, Name, Verb |
| blood | / | Noun, Verb |
| bother | /x | Verb, Noun |
| breath | / | Noun, Adjective, Verb |
| briefer | /x | Noun |
| brow | / | Noun, Verb |
| bulk | / | Noun, Adjective, Verb |
| burial | /xx | Noun |
| bury | /x | Verb, Noun |
| busted | /x | Adjective |
| calamitous | x/xx | Adjective |
| capital | /xx | Noun, Adjective |
| caption | /x | Noun, Verb |
| carrion | /xx | Noun, Adjective |
| catchphrase | // | Noun |
| chapter | /x | Noun, Verb |
| clause | / | Noun, Verb |
| comb | / | Noun, Verb |
| comma | /x | Noun, Verb |
| comment | /x | Noun, Verb |
| commonplace | /xx | Adjective, Noun, Verb |
| complicated | /xxx | Adjective |
| compose | x/ | Verb |
| comprehensible | xx/xx | Adjective |
| concise | x/ | Adjective, Verb |
| condemn | x/ | Verb |
| condemnation | xx/x | Noun |
| constituent | x/xx | Noun, Adjective |
| convict | /x | Verb, Noun |
| conviction | x/x | Noun |
| coroner | /xx | Noun |
| corpse | / | Noun, Verb |
| cremation | x/x | Noun |
| cryptic | /x | Adjective, Noun |
| culmination | xx/x | Noun |
| cycle | /x | Noun, Verb |
| dead | / | Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb |
| deadly | /x | Adjective, Adverb |
| decease | x/ | Noun, Verb |
| decision | x/x | Noun, Verb |
| defying | x/x | Verb, Adjective |
| deliverance | x/xx | Noun |
| demise | x/ | Noun, Verb |
| departure | x/x | Noun |
| deplores | x/ | Verb |
| destruction | x/x | Noun |
| dictum | /x | Noun |
| die | / | Verb, Noun |
| difficulty | /xxx | Noun |
| disappearance | xx/x | Noun |
| disappearing | xx/x | Noun |
| dismemberment | x/xx | Noun |
| document | /xx | Noun, Verb |
| dog | / | Noun, Verb, Adjective |
| dom | / | Noun, Verb |
| dot | / | Noun, Verb |
| downfall | /x | Noun, Verb |
| dread | / | Noun, Adjective, Verb |
| eclipse | x/ | Noun, Verb |
| effort | /x | Noun, Verb |
| embarrassing | x/xx | Adjective, Noun |
| end | / | Noun, Verb |
| english | /x | Name, Adjective, Verb |
| excerpt | /x | Noun, Verb |
| executed | /xxx | Adjective |
| execution | xx/x | Noun |
| exhaustion | x/x | Noun |
| exit | /x | Noun, Verb |
| expiration | xx/x | Noun |
| expression | x/x | Noun |
| extermination | xxx/x | Noun |
| extinction | x/x | Noun |
| extirpation | /xxx | Noun |
| extrajudicial | xxx/x | Adjective |
| fatal | /x | Adjective, Noun |
| father | /x | Noun, Verb |
| ferry | /x | Noun, Verb |
| fine | / | Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb |
| finish | /x | Verb, Noun |
| finite | /x | Adjective, Noun |
| foregoing | x/x | Adjective |
| formulaic | xx/x | Adjective |
| fragment | /x | Noun, Verb |
| fruition | x/x | Noun |
| frustrating | /xx | Adjective |
| funeral | /xx | Noun, Adjective |
| garbled | /x | Adjective |
| gibberish | /xx | Noun, Adjective |
| gone | / | Adjective |
| goner | /x | Noun |
| goon | / | Noun, Verb |
| governance | /xx | Noun |
| governing | /xx | Noun |
| government | /xx | Noun |
| grave | / | Noun, Adjective, Verb |
| greatly | /x | Adverb |
| grief | / | Noun, Verb |
| grim reaper | //x | Phrase, Noun |
| hanged | / | Adjective |
| hard time | // | Phrase, Noun |
| hardly | /x | Adverb |
| heartache | /x | Noun |
| heartbreaking | /xx | Noun, Adjective |
| heaven | /x | Noun, Verb |
| hungry | /x | Adjective |
| hydrogen | /xx | Noun |
| imposition | xx/x | Noun |
| imprisonment | x/xx | Noun |
| incarceration | xxx/x | Noun |
| inter | x/ | Name, Verb |
| interrogation | xxx/x | Noun |
| interrogative | xx/xx | Adjective, Noun |
| introductory | xx/xx | Adjective |
| italicized | x/xx | Verb, Adjective |
| jail | / | Noun, Verb |
| jesus | /x | Name, Verb |
| judge | / | Noun, Verb |
| judgement | /x | Noun |
| judgment | /x | Noun |
| just | / | Adverb, Adjective, Noun, Verb |
| killer | /x | Noun, Adjective |
| knell | / | Noun, Verb |
| laconic | x/x | Adjective |
| language | /x | Noun, Verb |
| last | / | Adjective, Adverb, Verb, Noun |
| lemma | /x | Noun |
| lesson | /x | Noun, Verb |
| life | / | Noun, Verb |
| line | / | Noun, Verb |
| little | /x | Adjective, Adverb, Noun |
| loss | / | Noun, Verb |
| macro | /x | Adjective, Noun |
| marginally | /xxx | Adverb |
| martyrdom | /xx | Noun |
| martyred | /x | Verb |
| mere | / | Adjective, Noun, Verb |
| misfortune | x/x | Noun |
| momentous | x/x | Adjective |
