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| Word | Syllables | Categories |
|---|---|---|
| grievous | /x | Adjective, Adjective |
| heartbreaking | /xx | Adjective, Noun, Adjective |
| sorrowful | /xx | Adjective, Adjective |
| harrowing | /xx | Noun |
| poignant | /x | Adjective |
| tragic | /x | Adjective |
| wrenching | /x | Noun |
| heartwarming | /xx | Adjective |
| trenchant | /x | Adjective |
| riveting | /xx | Noun |
| heartfelt | /x | Adjective |
| dispiriting | x/xx | Adjective |
| searing | /x | Noun |
| achingly | /xx | Adverb |
| horrifying | /xxx | Adjective |
| plaintive | /x | Adjective |
| unsentimental | xxx/x | Adjective |
| compelling | x/x | Adjective |
| disheartening | x/xx | Adjective |
| revelatory | x/xxx | Adjective |
| agonizing | /xxx | Adjective |
| painful | /x | Adjective |
| piteous | /xx | Adjective |
| mournful | /x | Adjective |
| elegiac | /xxx | Noun |
| endearing | x/x | Adjective |
| engrossing | x/x | Noun |
| excruciating | x/xxx | Adjective |
| doleful | /x | Adjective |
| devastating | /xxx | Adjective |
| distressing | x/x | Adjective |
| pathos | /x | Noun |
| entrancing | x/x | Adjective |
| haunting | /x | Noun |
| unnerving | x/x | Adjective |
| grisly | /x | Adjective |
| gruesome | /x | Adjective |
| brutal | /x | Adjective |
| profound | x/ | Adjective |
| consoling | x/x | Adjective |
| sobering | /xx | Adjective |
| fateful | /x | Adjective |
| unspeakably | x/xx | Adverb |
| histrionic | xx/x | Adjective |
| melodramatic | xxx/x | Adjective |
| poignancy | /xx | Noun |
| such | / | Adjective |
| emotive | x/x | Adjective |
| comical | /xx | Adjective |
| movingly | /xx | Adverb |
| horrific | x/x | Adjective |
| apposite | xx | Adjective |
| terse | / | Noun |
| despairing | x/x | Noun |
| terrifying | /xxx | Adjective |
| grieved | / | Verb |
| troubling | /xx | Adjective |
| hellish | /x | Adjective |
| heartbroken | /xx | Adjective |
| bereaved | x/ | Adjective |
| tearing | /x | Verb |
| crushing | /x | Verb |
| torturous | /xx | Adjective |
| severe | x/ | Adjective |
| fraught | / | Noun |
| hurt | / | Noun |
| intense | x/ | Adjective |
| killer | /x | Noun |
| overwhelming | xx/x | Adjective |
| extreme | x/ | Adjective |
| infuriating | x/xxx | Adjective |
| fatal | /x | Adjective |
| crying | /x | Verb |
| alarming | x/x | Adjective |
| desperate | /x | Adjective |
| distraught | x/ | Adjective |
| gnawing | /x | Noun |
| raging | /x | Verb |
| maddening | /xx | Adjective |
| exasperating | x/xxx | Adjective |
| dear | / | Noun |
| oppressive | x/x | Adjective |
| deathly | /x | Adjective |
| bruising | /x | Noun |
| perplexing | x/x | Adjective |
| trying | /x | Verb |
| disturbed | x/ | Adjective |
| deafening | /xx | Adjective |
| hard | / | Adjective |
| dreadful | /x | Adjective |
| stressful | /x | Adjective |
| exhausting | x/x | Adjective |
| splitting | /x | Noun |
| sadistic | x/x | Adjective |
| maudlin | /x | Noun |
| surgical | /xx | Adjective |
| frightful | /x | Adjective |
| awful | /x | Adjective |
| weary | /x | Adjective |
| panic | /x | Noun |
| charged | / | Verb |
| lovesick | //x | Adjective |
| chronic | /x | Adjective |
| heady | /x | Adjective |
| wails | / | Noun |
| shrieks | / | Noun |
| groans | / | Noun |
| sobs | / | Noun |
| moans | / | Noun |
| screams | / | Noun |
| lament | x/ | Noun |
| spectacle | /xx | Noun |
| plea | / | Noun |
| accents | /x | Noun |
| scenes | / | Noun |
| appeals | x/ | Noun |
| grief | / | Noun |
| tragedy | /xx | Noun |
| sight | / | Noun |
| tale | / | Noun |
| sigh | / | Noun |
| tones | / | Noun |
| tenderness | /xx | Noun |
| misery | /xx | Noun |
| stories | /x | Noun |
| letter | /x | Noun |
| accounts | x/ | Noun |
| voice | / | Noun |
| sound | / | Noun |
| struggle | /x | Noun |
| fashion | /x | Noun |
| moment | /x | Noun |
| picture | /x | Noun |
| news | / | Noun |
| decision | x/x | Noun |
| description | x/x | Noun |
| look | / | Noun |
| task | / | Noun |
| arid | /x | Adjective |
| craven | /x | Noun, Adjective, Verb |
| curdling | /x | Noun |
| dis | / | Noun, Verb |
| envy | /x | Noun, Verb |
| fanatic | x/x | Noun, Adjective |
| fiery | /xx | Adjective |
| foreboding | x/x | Noun, Adjective |
| hate | / | Verb, Noun |
| im | / | Noun, Verb, Adjective |
| melancholy | /xxx | Noun, Adjective |
| merry | /x | Adjective, Name |
| near | / | Adjective, Adverb, Verb, Noun |
| pathetic | x/x | Adjective |
| penitent | /xx | Noun, Adjective |
| pitiful | /xx | Adjective, Adverb |
| praying | /x | Noun |
| queer | / | Adjective, Noun, Verb, Adverb |
| rending | /x | Noun |
| reverend | /xx | Noun, Adjective |
| sad | / | Adjective, Verb, Noun |
| smarts | / | Noun |
| stony | /x | Noun, Adjective |
| super | /x | Noun, Adjective, Adverb, Verb |
| thrilling | /x | Noun, Adjective |
| woeful | /x | Adjective |
| die | / | Verb, Noun |
| shirtless | /x | Adjective |
| bulletproof | /xx | Adjective, Verb |
| fall | / | Verb, Noun |
