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| Word | Syllables | Categories |
|---|---|---|
| constructive | x/x | Adjective, Adjective |
| shaping | /x | Adjective, Noun, Verb |
| immature | xx/ | Verb, Adjective, Noun |
| young | / | Noun, Adjective, Noun, Verb |
| seminal | /xx | Adjective |
| childhood | /x | Noun |
| pivotal | /xx | Adjective |
| summative | xxx | Adjective |
| tumultuous | x/xx | Adjective |
| adolescence | xx/x | Noun |
| transformative | x/xx | Adjective |
| subsequent | /xx | Adjective |
| boyhood | /x | Noun |
| critical | /xx | Adjective |
| stage | / | Noun |
| infancy | /xx | Noun |
| phase | / | Noun |
| early | /x | Adjective |
| nascent | /x | Adjective |
| experience | x/xx | Noun |
| turbulent | /xx | Adjective |
| epochal | /xx | Adjective |
| foundational | x/xx | Adjective |
| developmental | xxx/x | Adjective |
| generative | /xxx | Adjective |
| traumatic | x/x | Adjective |
| momentous | x/x | Adjective |
| touchstone | /x | Noun |
| period | /xx | Noun |
| influence | /xx | Noun |
| experiential | xxx/x | Adjective |
| intervening | xx/x | Noun |
| fateful | /x | Adjective |
| development | x/xx | Noun |
| pedagogic | xx/x | Adjective |
| upbringing | /xx | Noun |
| maturation | xx/x | Noun |
| halcyon | /xx | Noun |
| moments | /x | Noun |
| crucial | /x | Adjective |
| influential | xx/x | Adjective |
| initial | x/x | Adjective |
| preparatory | x/xxx | Noun |
| explorations | xx/x | Noun |
| lessons | /x | Noun |
| heady | /x | Adjective |
| recollections | xx/x | Noun |
| enduring | x/x | Adjective |
| harrowing | /xx | Noun |
| transformational | xx/xx | Noun |
| culmination | xx/x | Noun |
| past | / | Noun |
| summers | /x | Noun |
| aspects | /x | Noun |
| curricular | x/xx | Adjective |
| eventful | x/x | Adjective |
| revelatory | x/xxx | Adjective |
| pedagogical | xx/xx | Adjective |
| adolescent | xx/x | Noun |
| during | /x | Noun |
| pioneering | xx/x | Adjective |
| postwar | // | Adjective |
| evaluative | x/xxx | Adjective |
| vital | /x | Adjective |
| salient | /xx | Adjective |
| emergent | x/x | Adjective |
| dialogic | /x/x | Noun |
| enculturation | x/x/x | Noun |
| embryonic | xx/x | Adjective |
| exploratory | x/xxx | Adjective |
| decades | x/ | Noun |
| introspective | xx/x | Adjective |
| contextual | x/xx | Adjective |
| adulthood | x/x | Noun |
| impressionable | x/xxx | Adjective |
| outgrowth | /x | Noun |
| instructional | x/xx | Adjective |
| paradigmatic | /xx/x | Adjective |
| assessment | x/x | Noun |
| years | / | Noun |
| conception | x/x | Noun |
| consequential | xx/x | Adjective |
| history | /xx | Noun |
| fraught | / | Noun |
| formal | /x | Adjective |
| germinal | /xx | Adjective |
| reformatory | x/xxx | Noun |
| trophic | /x | Adjective |
| morphogenetic | xxx/x | Adjective |
| morphological | xx/xx | Adjective |
| constructional | x/xx | Adjective |
| inflectional | x/xx | Adjective |
| liminal | /xx | Adjective |
| gestational | x/xx | Adjective |
| cytogenetic | /xx/x | Adjective |
| corrective | x/x | Adjective |
| phylogenetic | x/x/x | Adjective |
| modulatory | /xxxx | Noun |
| derivational | xx/xx | Adjective |
| anabolic | xx/x | Adjective |
| metabolic | xx/x | Noun |
| seminary | /xxx | Noun |
| ontogenetic | x/x/x | Adjective |
| oaxaca | /xx | Name |
| archaic | x/x | Name |
| mesoamerica | xxx/xx | Name |
| judaism | /xxx | Name |
| yean | / | Noun |
| causation | x/x | Noun |
| pruning | /x | Noun |
| spirituality | xxx/xx | Noun |
| suffixes | /xx | Noun |
| ceramics | x/x | Noun |
| teleology | xxx/x | Noun |
| feedback | /x | Noun |
| chiefdoms | /x | Noun |
| affixes | /xx | Noun |
| lag | / | Noun |
| figurines | xx/ | Noun |
| era | /x | Noun |
| pottery | /xx | Noun |
| epoch | /x | Noun |
| construct | x/ | Verb |
| prefix | /x | Noun |
| causality | x/xx | Noun |
| sherds | / | Noun |
| accentuation | x/x/x | Noun |
| ambiguity | xx/xx | Noun |
| annotation | xx/x | Noun |
| apocalyptic | xxx/x | Adjective, Noun |
| bent | / | Noun, Adjective |
| bringing | /x | Noun |
| browning | /x | Noun |
| centralizing | /xxx | Adjective, Verb, Noun |
| civilising | /xxx | Verb, Adjective, Noun |
| civilizing | /xxx | Verb, Adjective |
| clouding | /x | Noun |
| democratizing | x/xxx | Verb, Adjective, Noun |
| determinative | x/xxx | Adjective, Noun |
| diagnosis | xx/x | Noun, Verb |
| diagnostic | xx/x | Adjective, Name |
| educational | xx/xx | Adjective, Name |
| educative | /xxx | Adjective |
| ellipsis | x/x | Noun |
| expansionary | x/xxx | Adjective |
| experiments | x/xx | Noun |
| feathering | /xx | Noun |
| first | / | Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb |
| formation | x/x | Noun |
| humanizing | /xxx | Adjective, Verb, Noun |
| idiomatic | xxx/x | Adjective, Noun |
| informative | x/xx | Adjective |
| instructive | x/x | Adjective, Noun |
| ir | // | Name, Adjective |
| morphemes | // | Noun |
| nucleated | xx/x | Adjective |
| nurturing | /xx | Adjective, Verb, Noun |
| pitting | /x | Noun |
| psychical | /xx | Adjective |
| reflex | /x | Noun, Adjective, Verb |
| regulative | /xxx | Adjective |
| sign | / | Noun, Verb |
| simplification | xxx/x | Noun |
| socializing | /xxx | Noun |
| training | /x | Noun |
| unsettling | x/xx | Adjective, Noun |
| literally | /xxx | Adverb |
| expression | x/x | Noun |
| collocation | xx/x | Noun |
| chunk | / | Noun, Verb |
| cluster | /x | Noun, Verb |
| vernacular | x/xx | Noun, Adjective |
| standard | /x | Adjective, Noun |
| milestone | /x | Noun, Verb |
| dialect | /xx | Noun |
| sorta | /x | Adverb |
| no | / | Noun, Adverb, Adjective |
| tell | / | Verb, Noun |
| anymore | xx/ | Adverb |
| headlines | /x | Noun |
| bulletproof | /xx | Adjective, Verb |
