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| Word | Syllables | Categories | 
|---|---|---|
| on duty | //x | Phrase | 
| witnessing | /xx | Verb | 
| onscreen | x/ | Adjective | 
| backstage | // | Noun | 
| crime scene | // | Phrase, Noun | 
| out front | // | Phrase, Adverb | 
| onstage | x/ | Adverb, Adjective | 
| on base | // | Phrase | 
| filming | /x | Noun | 
| on call | // | Phrase, Noun | 
| on fire | //x | Phrase, Noun | 
| on earth | // | Phrase, Adverb | 
| in front | x/ | Phrase, Adverb | 
| on deck | // | Phrase | 
| outside | // | Noun | 
| in attendance | xx/x | Phrase | 
| on heat | // | Phrase | 
| on hand | // | Phrase, Noun | 
| on sight | // | Phrase, Noun | 
| spectator | /xx | Noun | 
| happenings | /xx | Noun | 
| live on | // | Phrase, Verb | 
| patrolling | x/x | Noun | 
| situational | xx/xx | Adjective | 
| on guard | // | Phrase, Adjective | 
| on account | /x/ | Phrase | 
| on board | // | Phrase, Adjective | 
| action | /x | Noun | 
| in motion | x/x | Phrase, Adjective | 
| in situ | x/x | Phrase, Adjective, Adverb | 
| oncoming | /xx | Adjective | 
| in public | x/x | Phrase, Adjective | 
| on top | // | Phrase, Adverb | 
| occurring | x/x | Verb | 
| spotter | /x | Noun | 
| representing | xx/x | Verb | 
| in concert | x/x | Phrase, Adverb | 
| in place | x/ | Phrase, Adjective, Adverb | 
| center stage | /x/ | Phrase, Noun | 
| on tour | // | Phrase, Noun | 
| intervening | xx/x | Noun | 
| commotion | x/x | Noun | 
| front line | // | Phrase, Noun | 
| situation | xx/x | Noun | 
| on air | // | Phrase, Adverb | 
| street corner | //x | Phrase, Noun | 
| staging area | /x/xx | Phrase, Noun | 
| first responder | /x/x | Phrase, Noun | 
| scenes | / | Noun | 
| onlookers | /xx | Noun | 
| presence | /x | Noun | 
| undercover | xx/x | Adjective | 
| demonstration | xx/x | Noun | 
| street | / | Noun | 
| right now | // | Phrase, Adverb | 
| in play | x/ | Phrase | 
| whereabouts | /xx | Noun | 
| on offer | //x | Phrase | 
| demonstrating | /xxx | Verb | 
| contextual | x/xx | Adjective | 
| bystanders | /xx | Noun | 
| on foot | // | Phrase | 
| videotaping | /xxxx | Noun | 
| set on | // | Phrase, Verb | 
| on record | /x/ | Phrase | 
| active | /x | Adjective | 
| fighting | /x | Noun | 
| located | /xx | Verb | 
| incident | /xx | Noun | 
| on end | // | Phrase | 
| position | x/x | Noun | 
| check on | // | Phrase, Verb | 
| accident | /xx | Noun, Adjective | 
| act | / | Noun, Verb, Adverb | 
| actor | /x | Noun | 
| agenda | x/x | Noun | 
| altar | /x | Noun | 
| area | /xx | Noun | 
| arena | x/x | Noun | 
| aspect | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| backdrop | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| background | /x | Noun, Adjective, Verb | 
| beautiful | /xx | Adjective, Noun | 
| bit | / | Noun, Verb, Adjective | 
| brightness | /x | Noun | 
| camera | /xx | Noun | 
| canto | /x | Noun | 
| cantonese | xx/ | Name, Adjective | 
| chaos | /x | Noun | 
| charade | x/ | Noun, Verb | 
| chessboard | /x | Noun | 
| coast | / | Noun, Verb | 
| comeback | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| commercial | x/x | Adjective, Noun | 
| content | /x | Noun, Adjective, Verb | 
| correspondent | xx/x | Noun, Adjective | 
| countryside | /xx | Noun | 
| craze | / | Noun, Verb | 
| crime | / | Noun, Verb | 
| curriculum | x/xx | Noun | 
| curtain | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| cycle | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| dark | / | Adjective, Noun, Verb | 
| decor | x/ | Noun | 
| decoration | xx/x | Noun | 
| developments | x/xx | Noun | 
| dialogue | /xx | Noun, Verb | 
| dinner | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| diorama | /x/x | Noun | 
| directed | x/x | Adjective | 
| drama | /x | Noun | 
| duty | /x | Noun | 
| décor | / | Noun | 
| eighty | /x | Noun, Adjective | 
| environment | x/xx | Noun | 
| epiphany | x/xx | Noun | 
| episode | /xx | Noun | 
| epoch | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| event | x/ | Noun, Verb | 
| exhibit | x/x | Noun, Verb | 
| exhibition | xx/x | Noun | 
| experiment | x/xx | Noun, Verb | 
| exposure | x/x | Noun | 
| field | / | Noun, Verb | 
| fifty | /x | Noun | 
| fit | / | Verb, Noun, Adjective | 
| flat | / | Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb | 
| floor | / | Noun, Verb | 
| footage | /x | Noun | 
| fora | /x | Noun | 
| fore | / | Noun, Adjective, Adverb | 
| forefront | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| foreground | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| forty | /x | Noun, Adjective | 
| fracas | /x | Noun | 
| framework | /x | Noun | 
| front | / | Noun, Adjective, Verb | 
| fuss | / | Noun, Verb | 
| glimpse | / | Noun, Verb | 
| grizzly | /x | Adjective, Noun | 
| ground | / | Noun, Verb, Adjective | 
| herzegovina | xxx/x | Name | 
| image | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| king | / | Noun, Verb | 
| landscape | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| lecture | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| lens | / | Noun, Verb | 
| lesson | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| level | /x | Noun, Adjective, Verb | 
| lieu | / | Noun | 
| life | / | Noun, Verb | 
| light | / | Noun, Adjective, Verb, Adverb | 
| limelight | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| live | / | Verb, Adjective, Adverb | 
| local | /x | Adjective, Noun, Adverb | 
| locale | x/ | Noun | 
| location | x/x | Noun | 
| loci | /x | Noun | 
| lookout | /x | Noun | 
| medley | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| middle distance | /x/x | Phrase, Noun | 
| milieu | x/ | Noun | 
| montage | x/ | Noun, Verb | 
| movie | /x | Noun | 
| ninety | /x | Noun, Adjective | 
| one | / | Noun, Adjective, Verb | 
| opera | /x | Noun | 
| outlook | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| overview | /xx | Noun, Verb | 
| panorama | xx/x | Noun | 
| parable | /xx | Noun, Verb, Adjective | 
| parade | x/ | Noun, Verb | 
| park | / | Noun, Verb | 
| part | / | Noun, Verb, Adjective, Adverb | 
| performance | x/x | Noun | 
| performer | x/x | Noun | 
| perimeter | x/xx | Noun | 
| phenomenon | x/xx | Noun | 
| picture | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| place | / | Noun, Verb | 
| plan | / | Noun, Verb | 
| play | / | Verb, Noun | 
| player | /x | Noun | 
| playhouse | /x | Noun | 
| poem | /x | Noun | 
| post | / | Noun, Verb, Adverb | 
| price | / | Noun, Verb | 
| principle | /xx | Noun, Verb | 
| project | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| prominence | /xx | Noun | 
| prospect | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| rise | / | Noun, Verb | 
| sand | / | Noun, Adjective, Verb | 
| scale | / | Noun, Verb | 
| scandal | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| scenario | x/xx | Noun | 
| scenery | /xx | Noun | 
| screen | / | Noun, Verb | 
| seat | / | Noun, Verb | 
| section | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| sequence | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| set | / | Verb, Noun, Adjective | 
| seventy | /xx | Noun | 
| shadow | /x | Noun, Verb, Adjective | 
| shooting | /x | Noun, Adjective | 
| show | / | Verb, Noun | 
| side view | // | Phrase, Noun | 
| sight | / | Noun, Verb | 
| signatory | /xxx | Noun, Adjective | 
| site | / | Noun, Verb | 
| situ | xx | Noun | 
| sixty | /x | Noun, Adjective | 
| song | / | Noun | 
| spectacle | /xx | Noun | 
| sphere | / | Noun, Verb | 
| spot | / | Noun, Verb, Adjective | 
| spotlight | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| square | / | Noun, Adjective, Adverb, Verb | 
| stage | / | Noun, Verb | 
| stories | /x | Verb | 
| strategy | /xx | Noun | 
| style | / | Noun, Verb | 
| subject | x/ | Noun, Adjective, Verb | 
| table | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| tableau | x/ | Noun | 
| tantrum | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| terrain | x/ | Noun | 
| theater | /xx | Noun | 
| theatre | /xx | Noun | 
| theoretician | xxx/x | Noun | 
| theorist | /xx | Noun | 
| thing | / | Noun, Verb | 
| thirty | /x | Noun | 
| trip | / | Noun, Verb, Adjective | 
| twenty | /x | Noun | 
| underwater | /xxx | Adjective, Adverb, Name, Verb | 
| uproar | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| venue | /x | Noun | 
| view | / | Noun, Verb | 
| vision | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| vista | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| website | /x | Noun | 
| workplaces | /xx | Noun | 
| world | / | Noun, Verb | 
| yard | / | Noun, Verb | 
