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| Word | Syllables | Categories | 
|---|---|---|
| inherited | x/xx  | Adjective, Verb  | 
| heritable | /xxx  | Verb, Adjective  | 
| patrimonial | /xxx  | Adjective, Adjective, Noun  | 
| ancestral | x/x  | Noun, Adjective  | 
| familial | x/x  | Adjective, Adjective  | 
| transmissible | x/xx  | Adjective, Adjective  | 
| transmitted | x/x  | Adjective, Adjective, Verb  | 
| genetic | x/x  | Verb, Adjective  | 
| heredity | x/xx  | Noun  | 
| aristocracy | xx/xx  | Noun  | 
| primogeniture | /x/xx  | Noun  | 
| inborn | /x  | Adjective  | 
| bloodline | /x  | Noun  | 
| nobility | x/xx  | Noun  | 
| aristocratic | xxx/x  | Adjective  | 
| congenital | x/xx  | Adjective  | 
| monogenic | /x/x  | Adjective  | 
| inbreeding | x/x  | Noun  | 
| polygenic | x//x  | Adjective  | 
| porphyria | xx/x  | Noun  | 
| malady | /xx  | Noun  | 
| monarchical | /xxx  | Adjective  | 
| paternal | x/x  | Noun  | 
| mendelian | /xx  | Adjective  | 
| patrilineal | xx/xx  | Adjective  | 
| inheritance | x/xx  | Noun  | 
| genes | /  | Noun  | 
| predisposition | xxx/x  | Noun  | 
| consanguinity | x//xx  | Noun  | 
| ancestry | /xx  | Noun  | 
| epigenetic | xxx/x  | Adjective  | 
| mutation | x/x  | Noun  | 
| descendant | x/x  | Noun  | 
| monarchy | /xx  | Noun  | 
| heir | /  | Noun  | 
| lineage | /xx  | Noun  | 
| autosomal | /xx/  | Adjective  | 
| monarchic | /xx  | Noun  | 
| neuropathies | x/xx  | Noun  | 
| disorder | x/x  | Noun  | 
| offspring | /x  | Noun  | 
| idiopathic | xxx/x  | Noun  | 
| constitutional | xx/xx  | Noun  | 
| baldness | /x  | Noun  | 
| disease | x/  | Noun  | 
| noblemen | /xx  | Noun  | 
| royal | /x  | Name  | 
| commoner | /xx  | Noun  | 
| trait | /  | Noun  | 
| neurological | xx/xx  | Adjective  | 
| innate | x/  | Adjective  | 
| posthumous | /xx  | Adjective  | 
| vicarious | x/xx  | Adjective  | 
| freewill | /x  | Noun  | 
| post mortem | //x  | Phrase, Adjective, Adverb, Noun  | 
| on loan | //  | Phrase, Adjective, Adverb  | 
| intentional | x/xx  | Adjective  | 
| severed | /x  | Verb  | 
| wilful | /x  | Adjective  | 
| buried | /x  | Verb  | 
| purposed | /x  | Verb  | 
| sworn | /  | Verb  | 
| epistolary | x/xxx  | Noun  | 
| seeded | /x  | Adjective  | 
| chronological | xx/xx  | Noun  | 
| piped | /  | Adjective  | 
| wedded | /x  | Adjective  | 
| to the manner born | /x/x/  | Phrase, Adjective  | 
| interred | x/  | Verb  | 
| prophetic | x/x  | Adjective  | 
| through | /  | Adjective, Adverb, Noun  | 
| forcible | /xx  | Adjective  | 
| declared | x/  | Verb  | 
| foster | /x  | Name  | 
| mummified | /xx  | Adjective  | 
| angioedema | /xx/x  | Noun  | 
| telangiectasia | /xx/x  | Noun  | 
| hemochromatosis | xxxx/x  | Noun  | 
| retinoblastoma | xxxx/x  | Noun  | 
| chorea | /xx  | Noun  | 
| hemorrhagic | xx/x  | Noun  | 
| pipers | /x  | Noun  | 
| paraplegia | xx/xx  | Noun  | 
| accrue | x/  | Verb, Noun  | 
| acquired | x/x  | Adjective  | 
| alteration | xx/x  | Noun  | 
| arbitrary | /xxx  | Adjective, Noun  | 
| central | /x  | Adjective, Noun  | 
| con | /  | Noun, Verb  | 
| consequent | /xx  | Adjective, Noun  | 
| councilors | /xx  | Noun  | 
| crown | /  | Noun, Adjective, Verb  | 
| de | /  | Noun, Verb  | 
| deserving | x/x  | Noun, Adjective  | 
| despotic | x/x  | Adjective  | 
| dis | /  | Noun, Verb  | 
| discoverable | x/xxx  | Adjective  | 
| ex | /  | Noun, Verb, Adjective  | 
| im | /  | Noun, Verb, Adjective  | 
| inconsistent | xx/x  | Adjective  | 
| intergenerational | xx/x/xx  | Adjective  | 
| intrinsic | x/x  | Adjective, Noun  | 
| lineal | /xx  | Adjective  | 
| linked | /  | Adjective  | 
| predisposing | xx/x  | Verb, Adjective, Noun  | 
| prince | /  | Noun, Verb  | 
| reversionary | x/xxx  | Adjective, Noun  | 
| simple | /x  | Adjective, Noun, Verb  | 
| sub | /  | Noun, Verb  | 
| traditional | x/xx  | Adjective, Noun  | 
| breakeven | /xx  | Verb, Noun, Adjective  | 
| milestone | /x  | Noun, Verb  | 
| save | /  | Verb, Noun  | 
| tell | /  | Verb, Noun  | 
| get | /  | Verb, Noun  | 
| no | /  | Noun, Adverb, Adjective  | 
| anymore | xx/  | Adverb  | 
| sorta | /x  | Adverb  | 
| oh | /  | Noun, Verb  | 
| cloth | /  | Noun  | 
| expression | x/x  | Noun  | 
| off | /  | Adverb, Adjective, Verb, Noun  | 
| headlines | /x  | Noun  | 
