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| Word | Syllables | Categories | 
|---|---|---|
| able | /x | Adjective, Verb, Noun | 
| absence | /x | Noun | 
| absent | /x | Adjective, Noun, Verb | 
| absolutely | xx/x | Adverb | 
| actually | /xxx | Adverb | 
| addition | x/x | Noun | 
| again | x/ | Adverb | 
| ahead | x/ | Adverb | 
| aims | / | Adverb | 
| allow | x/ | Verb | 
| alone | x/ | Adverb, Adjective | 
| always | /x | Adverb | 
| ambitions | x/x | Noun | 
| and | x | Noun, Verb, Adjective | 
| anna | /x | Name | 
| anticipated | x/xxx | Adjective | 
| anticipations | xxx/x | Adjective | 
| anxieties | x/xx | Noun | 
| anything | /xx | Noun, Adverb | 
| around | x/ | Adverb, Adjective | 
| ascending | x/x | Adjective, Noun | 
| aspirations | xx/x | Noun | 
| assumptions | x/x | Noun | 
| attitudes | /xx | Noun | 
| attributions | /x/x | Noun | 
| atypical | x/xx | Adjective, Noun | 
| avoid | x/ | Verb | 
| awake | x/ | Adjective, Verb | 
| away | x/ | Adverb, Adjective, Verb | 
| bad | / | Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb | 
| badly | /x | Adverb, Adjective | 
| barely | /x | Adverb | 
| battalion | x/x | Noun, Verb | 
| behaviorist | x/xx | Noun | 
| beliefs | x/ | Noun | 
| benchmarking | /xx | Noun | 
| better | /x | Adjective, Noun, Verb | 
| beyond | x/ | Adverb, Noun | 
| bit | / | Noun, Verb, Adjective | 
| borne | / | Adjective, Noun | 
| brigade | x/ | Noun, Verb | 
| but | / | Adverb, Noun, Verb | 
| caper | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| cartesian | x/x | Name, Adjective | 
| certainly | /xx | Adverb | 
| choice | / | Noun, Adjective | 
| chorus | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| claims | / | Noun, Verb | 
| clocked | / | Adjective | 
| combinational | xx/xx | Adjective | 
| come | / | Verb, Noun | 
| commitments | x/x | Noun | 
| completely | x/x | Adverb | 
| conceptions | x/x | Noun | 
| concerns | x/ | Noun, Verb | 
| copernican | x/xx | Adjective, Noun | 
| course | / | Noun, Verb, Adverb | 
| currently | /xx | Adverb | 
| cut | / | Verb, Noun, Adjective | 
| darwinian | x/xx | Adjective, Noun | 
| delays | x/ | Noun | 
| demands | x/ | Noun, Verb | 
| denying | x/x | Noun | 
| desires | x/x | Noun | 
| diagnostic | xx/x | Adjective, Name | 
| difficult | /xx | Adjective, Verb | 
| disobedient | xx/xx | Adjective, Noun | 
| distress | x/ | Noun, Verb | 
| diviner | x/x | Noun | 
| divisible | x/xx | Adjective, Noun | 
| does | / | Noun | 
| don | / | Name, Verb | 
| down | / | Adverb, Adjective, Verb, Noun | 
| downwards | /x | Adverb | 
| either | /x | Adverb | 
| elevator | /xxx | Noun, Verb | 
| else | / | Adverb, Adjective, Noun | 
| emphases | /xx | Noun, Verb | 
| enough | x/ | Adverb, Noun | 
| erection | x/x | Noun | 
| estimates | /xx | Noun | 
| even | /x | Adverb, Adjective, Verb, Noun | 
| ever | /x | Adverb, Adjective | 
| exam | x/ | Noun, Verb | 
| except | x/ | Verb | 
| excluded | x/x | Verb | 
| expectancies | x/xx | Noun | 
| expectation | xx/x | Noun | 
| expects | x/ | Verb | 
| exploratory | x/xxx | Adjective, Noun | 
| fails | / | Verb | 
| failure | /x | Noun | 
| fake | / | Adjective, Noun, Verb | 
| false | / | Adjective, Verb, Adverb, Noun | 
| far | / | Adverb, Adjective, Verb, Noun | 
| fears | / | Noun | 
| few | / | Noun | 
| finding | /x | Noun | 
| finished | /x | Adjective | 
| flop | / | Noun, Verb, Adverb | 
| focus | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| footsteps | /x | Noun | 
| forbidden | /xx | Adjective | 
| forecasts | x/ | Noun | 
| forget | x/ | Verb, Noun | 
| free | / | Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb | 
| functionalist | /xxx | Adjective, Noun | 
| functioning | /xx | Noun, Adjective | 
| gathering | /xx | Noun, Adjective | 
| goals | / | Adjective | 
| god | / | Name, Verb | 
| gonna | /x | Verb | 
| hard | / | Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb | 
| hardly | /x | Adverb | 
| heading | /x | Noun | 
| heavenward | /xx | Adverb, Adjective | 
| high | / | Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb | 
| hopes | / | Verb | 
| how | / | Adverb, Noun | 
| however | x/x | Adverb | 
| huh | / | Noun | 
| ill | / | Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb | 
| immaterial | xx/xx | Adjective, Noun | 
| impossible | x/xx | Adjective, Noun | 
| improving | x/x | Adjective | 
| in the lead | xx/ | Phrase, Adverb, Adjective | 
| inappropriate | xx/xx | Adjective | 
| incorporeal | x/xx | Adjective | 
| indivisible | xx/xx | Adjective, Noun | 
| indoors | /x | Noun, Adverb | 
| informal | x/x | Adjective | 
| initial | x/x | Adjective, Noun, Verb | 
| instead | x/ | Adverb | 
| insufficiently | xx/xx | Adverb | 
| internship | /xx | Noun | 
| is | / | Verb, Noun | 
| it | / | Noun, Adjective | 
| just | / | Adverb, Adjective, Noun, Verb | 
| keep | / | Verb, Noun | 
| keynesian | /xx | Adjective, Noun | 
| lack | / | Noun, Verb | 
| leading | /x | Adjective, Noun | 
| leap | / | Noun, Verb, Adjective | 
| less | / | Adjective, Adverb, Verb, Noun | 
| let | / | Verb, Noun | 
| lift | / | Verb, Noun | 
| logic | /x | Noun, Adjective, Verb | 
| longer | /x | Noun | 
| malthusian | /xxx | Adjective, Noun | 
| marketing | /xx | Noun | 
| maximum | /xx | Adjective, Noun | 
| me | / | Noun | 
| merely | /x | Adverb | 
| missing | /x | Adjective, Noun | 
| monetarist | /xxx | Noun, Adjective | 
| most | / | Adverb, Adjective, Noun | 
| must | / | Verb, Noun | 
| mysterious | x/xx | Adjective | 
| nah | / | Name | 
| napoleon | x/xx | Name | 
| nav | / | Noun, Verb | 
| naw | / | Verb | 
| nay | / | Name, Adverb, Verb, Adjective | 
| needs | / | Noun, Adverb | 
| negative | /xx | Adjective, Noun, Verb | 
| neither | /x | Adverb | 
| neoclassical | xx/xx | Adjective, Noun | 
| never | /x | Adverb | 
| next | / | Adjective, Adverb, Noun | 
| nicht | / | Verb, Noun | 
| nobody | /xx | Noun | 
| noes | / | Noun | 
| none | / | Noun, Adverb | 
| noo | / | Adverb, Adjective | 
| nope | / | Noun, Verb | 
| nor | / | Noun | 
| nota | /x | Noun | 
| nothing | /x | Noun, Adverb, Adjective | 
| noting | /x | Noun | 
| now | / | Adverb, Adjective, Noun, Verb | 
| nowhere | /x | Adverb, Adjective, Noun | 
| number | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| objectives | x/x | Noun | 
| odds | / | Noun | 
| off | / | Adverb, Adjective, Verb, Noun | 
| often | /x | Adverb, Adjective | 
| okay | x/ | Adjective, Noun, Verb, Adverb | 
| omitted | x/x | Verb | 
| only | /x | Adverb, Adjective, Noun | 
| opposed | x/ | Adjective | 
| or | / | Noun, Adjective, Adverb | 
| otherwise | /xx | Adverb, Adjective | 
| outlooks | /x | Noun | 
| outpatient | /xx | Noun, Adjective | 
| outs | / | Noun | 
| outside | // | Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb | 
| overhaul | /xx | Noun, Verb | 
| paces | /x | Noun | 
| pas | / | Noun | 
| perceptions | x/x | Noun | 
| perhaps | x/ | Adverb, Noun | 
| perspectives | x/x | Noun | 
| plight | / | Noun, Verb | 
| plus | / | Noun, Adjective, Verb | 
| poorly | /x | Adverb, Adjective | 
| predictions | x/x | Noun | 
| preparatory | x/xxx | Adjective | 
| prepared | x/ | Adjective | 
| pretty | /x | Adverb, Adjective, Noun, Verb | 
| prevent | x/ | Verb | 
| priorities | x/xx | Verb | 
| prohibits | x/x | Verb | 
| project | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| projections | x/x | Noun | 
| prospective | x/x | Adjective, Noun | 
| prospects | /x | Noun | 
| psyche | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| queues | / | Noun | 
| quite | / | Adverb, Noun | 
| raised | / | Adjective | 
| rarely | /x | Adverb | 
| rather | /x | Adverb, Verb, Adjective, Noun | 
| really | /x | Adverb, Verb | 
| refrain | x/ | Verb, Noun | 
| refusals | x/x | Noun | 
| refuses | x/x | Verb | 
| remember | x/x | Verb | 
| requirements | x/x | Noun | 
| resuscitate | x/xx | Verb, Adjective | 
| review | x/ | Noun, Verb | 
| ricardian | x/xx | Adjective, Name | 
| right | / | Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb | 
| risen | /x | Adjective, Noun | 
| round | / | Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb | 
| routine | x/ | Adjective, Noun | 
| run | / | Verb, Noun, Adjective | 
| sans | / | Adjective | 
| saps | / | Noun | 
| scarcely | /x | Adverb | 
| score | / | Noun, Verb | 
| seen | / | Verb, Noun | 
| seldom | /x | Adverb, Adjective | 
| sell | / | Verb, Noun | 
| sentiment | /xx | Noun | 
| short | / | Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb | 
| shortly | /x | Adverb | 
| simply | /x | Adverb | 
| site | / | Noun, Verb | 
| sky | / | Noun, Verb | 
| skyward | /x | Adverb, Adjective | 
| so | / | Adverb, Adjective, Noun | 
| speculations | xx/x | Noun | 
| sprouted | /x | Adjective | 
| stair | / | Noun | 
| stakes | / | Noun | 
| stay | / | Verb, Noun, Adjective, Adverb | 
| steps | / | Noun | 
| still | / | Adverb, Adjective, Noun, Verb | 
| stop | / | Verb, Noun | 
| sure | / | Adjective, Adverb | 
| surely | /x | Adverb | 
| swing | / | Noun, Verb | 
| testing | /x | Noun, Adjective | 
| than | / | Adverb, Noun | 
| theirs | / | Adjective | 
| therefore | /x | Adverb | 
| too | / | Adverb | 
| totally | /xx | Adverb | 
| trial | /x | Noun, Adjective, Verb | 
| true | / | Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb | 
| unable | x/x | Adjective, Verb | 
| unintended | xx/x | Adjective | 
| unmodified | x/xx | Adjective | 
| unpaid | x/ | Adjective | 
| unplanned | x/ | Adjective | 
| unsuccessful | xx/x | Adjective | 
| untrue | x/ | Adjective | 
| unwanted | x/x | Adjective, Noun | 
| ups | / | Noun, Verb | 
| upwards | /x | Adverb | 
| valuations | xx/x | Noun | 
| values | /x | Noun | 
| very | /x | Adverb, Adjective | 
| waits | / | Noun | 
| way | / | Noun, Verb, Adverb, Adjective | 
| weep | / | Verb, Noun | 
| whatever | x/x | Adverb, Adjective, Noun | 
| why | / | Adverb, Noun, Verb | 
| wicket | /x | Noun | 
| wishes | /x | Noun | 
| without | x/ | Adverb | 
| wrong | / | Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb | 
| yeah | / | Noun | 
| yes | / | Name, Verb | 
| yet | / | Adverb, Verb, Noun | 
