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WordSyllablesCategories
happen
/x
Verb, Verb
be
/
Verb, Verb
come
/
Verb, Verb
pass
/
Verb, Verb, Noun
hap
/
Noun, Verb
anticipate
x/xx
Verb, Verb
come about
/x/
Phrase, Verb
pass off
//
Phrase, Verb
take place
//
Phrase, Verb
arise
x/
Verb
ensue
x/
Noun
befall
x/
Verb
transpire
x/x
Verb
recur
x/
Verb
originate
x/xx
Verb
exist
x/
Verb
erupt
x/
Verb
affect
x/
Verb
appear
x/
Verb
precede
x/
Verb
emerge
x/
Verb
caused
/
Verb
unfold
x/
Verb
involve
x/
Verb
culminate
/xx
Verb
occurrence
x/x
Noun
disappear
xx/
Verb
likely
/x
Adjective
trigger
/x
Noun
predominate
x/xx
Verb
persist
x/
Verb
coincide
xx/
Verb
typically
/xx
Adverb
escalate
/xx
Verb
effected
x/x
Verb
vary
/x
Verb
reappear
xx/
Verb
normally
/xx
Adverb
vanish
/x
Verb
subside
x/
Verb
commonplace
/xx
Noun
underway
xx/
Adjective
accrue
x/
Noun
ordinarily
xx/xx
Adverb
inevitably
x/xxx
Adverb
invariably
x/xxx
Adverb
unavoidable
xx/xx
Adjective
prevail
x/
Verb
commonly
/xx
Adverb
infrequently
x/xx
Adverb
evolve
x/
Verb
materialize
x/xxx
Verb
afflict
x/
Verb
converge
x/
Noun
necessitate
x/xx
Verb
worsen
/x
Verb
entail
x/
Verb
encounter
x/x
Noun
prevented
x/x
Verb
usually
/xxx
Adverb
inevitable
x/xxx
Adjective
undertaken
/xxx
Verb
often
/x
Adverb
fluctuate
/xx
Verb
abound
x/
Verb
perpetrated
/xxx
Verb
begin
x/
Verb
naturally
/xxx
Adverb
resulted
x/x
Verb
evaporate
x/xx
Verb
fall
/
Noun
correspond
xx/
Verb
seep
/
Noun
manifested
/xxx
Verb
require
x/x
Verb
coalesce
xx/
Verb
fail
/
Verb
intervene
xx/
Verb
come off
//
Phrase, Verb
take
/
Verb
find
/
Verb
show up
//
Phrase, Verb
crop up
//
Phrase, Verb
come upon
/x/
Phrase, Verb
tide
/
Noun
incur
x/
Verb
stumble across
/xx/
Phrase, Verb
run into
/x/
Phrase, Verb
come by
//
Phrase, Verb
bump into
/x/
Phrase, Verb
spring up
//
Phrase, Verb
collide
x/
Noun
cascade
x/
Noun
break out
//
Phrase, Verb
open
/x
Adjective
limp
/
Adjective
undergo
xx/
Verb
grow
/
Verb
surprise
x/
Noun
impinge
x/
Verb
stumble
/x
Noun
attract
x/
Verb
clash
/
Noun
fortune
/x
Noun
precipitate
x/xx
Noun
confront
x/
Verb
fall into
/x/
Phrase, Verb
turn out
//
Phrase, Verb
roll around
/x/
Phrase, Verb
break into
/x/
Phrase, Verb
fetch up
//
Phrase, Verb
trip up
//
Phrase, Verb
open up
/x/
Phrase, Verb
arrive
x/
Verb
overcome
/xx
Verb
interfere
xx/
Verb
call
/
Noun
chance
/
Noun
fall on
//
Phrase, Verb
come over
//x
Phrase, Verb
awaken
x/x
Verb
scatter
/x
Noun
come out with
///
Phrase, Verb
drop
/
Noun
leave
/
Verb
swim
/
Noun
seize
/
Verb
fall upon
/x/
Phrase, Verb
interject
xx/
Verb
burst out
//
Phrase, Verb
catch
/
Noun
reach
/
Noun
outbreak
/x
Noun
come in
/x
Phrase, Verb
elapse
x/
Verb
interpose
xx/
Verb
cohabit
x/x
Verb
antepartum
xx/x
Adjective
muscovite
/xx
Adjective
unconsciousness
x/xx
Adjective
uncommonly
x/xx
Adjective
sparsely
/x
Adjective
subsequent
/xx
Adjective
arrest
x/
Adjective
relapses
x/x
Noun
vomiting
/xx
Verb
sporadically
x/xx
Adverb
hemorrhages
/xxx
Noun
unpredictably
xx/xx
Adverb
convulsions
x/x
Noun
earthquakes
/x
Noun
epidemics
xx/x
Noun
singly
/x
Adverb
arrhythmias
x/xx
Noun
seizures
/x
Noun
fractures
/x
Noun
metastases
x/xx
Noun
abound in
x/x
Phrase, Verb
are
/
Noun
attend
x/
Verb
break
/
Verb, Noun
breed
/
Noun, Verb
cases
/x
Noun
come around
/x/
Phrase, Verb
come up
//
Phrase, Verb
committed
x/x
Adjective
concur
x/
Verb
develop
x/x
Verb
distinguishes
x/xx
Verb, Noun
file
/
Noun, Verb
generate
/xx
Verb
get
/
Verb, Noun
give
/
Verb, Noun
go
/
Verb, Noun, Adjective
grouped
/
Adjective
have
/
Verb, Noun
held
/
Noun
how
/
Adverb, Noun
induce
x/
Verb
interlude
/xx
Noun, Verb
lead
/
Verb, Noun, Adjective
lie
/
Verb, Noun
lieu
/
Noun
live
/
Verb, Adjective, Adverb
location
x/x
Noun
make
/
Verb, Noun
materialise
x/xxx
Verb
meet
/
Verb, Noun, Adjective
observe
x/
Verb, Noun
operate
/xx
Verb
outcrop
//
Noun, Verb
perform
x/
Verb
place
/
Noun, Verb
possible
/xx
Adjective, Noun
present
/x
Adjective, Verb, Noun
proceed
x/
Verb
produce
x/
Verb, Noun
product
/x
Noun, Verb
provoke
x/
Verb
repeat
x/
Verb, Noun
reproduce
xx/
Verb
rest
/
Noun, Verb
rise
/
Noun, Verb
run
/
Verb, Noun, Adjective
shine
/
Verb, Noun
show
/
Verb, Noun
site
/
Noun, Verb
spawn
/
Verb, Noun
speak
/
Verb, Noun
stand
/
Verb, Noun
strike
/
Noun, Verb
synchronize
/xx
Verb
touch
/
Noun, Verb
venue
/x
Noun
work
/
Noun, Verb
yield
/
Noun, Verb
save
/
Verb, Noun
milestone
/x
Noun, Verb
breakeven
/xx
Verb, Noun, Adjective
off
/
Adverb, Adjective, Verb, Noun
tell
/
Verb, Noun
backwater
/xx
Noun, Verb
die
/
Verb, Noun
stonewall
/x
Name, Verb, Adjective
no
/
Noun, Adverb, Adjective
sorta
/x
Adverb
anymore
xx/
Adverb