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| Word | Syllables | Categories |
|---|---|---|
| scholarly | /xx | Adjective, Adjective |
| academic | xx/x | Adjective, Adjective |
| pedantry | /xx | Noun |
| pompous | /x | Adjective |
| prissy | /x | Noun |
| verbose | x/ | Adjective |
| dogmatic | x/x | Adjective |
| facetious | x/x | Adjective |
| wordy | /x | Adjective |
| tiresome | /xx | Adjective |
| egotistical | xx/xx | Adjective |
| puerile | /x | Adjective |
| tactless | /x | Adjective |
| officious | x/x | Adjective |
| boorish | /x | Adjective |
| flippant | /x | Adjective |
| snooty | /x | Noun |
| philistine | /xx | Noun |
| obtuse | x/ | Adjective |
| punctilious | x/xx | Adjective |
| snobbish | /x | Adjective |
| erudite | /xx | Adjective |
| sanctimonious | xx/xx | Adjective |
| moralistic | xx/x | Adjective |
| humorless | /xx | Adjective |
| pretentious | x/x | Adjective |
| infantile | /xx | Noun |
| prosaic | x/x | Adjective |
| sarcastic | x/x | Adjective |
| dopey | /x | Name |
| impertinent | x/xx | Adjective |
| stickler | /xx | Noun |
| petty | /x | Noun |
| doctrinaire | xx/ | Noun |
| peevish | /x | Adjective |
| neurotic | x/x | Adjective |
| condescending | xx/x | Adjective |
| censorious | /x/x | Adjective |
| glib | / | Noun |
| precise | x/ | Adjective |
| uptight | x/ | Adjective |
| fastidious | x/xx | Adjective |
| fussy | /x | Adjective |
| finicky | /xx | Adjective |
| perfectionist | x/xx | Noun |
| didactic | x/x | Adjective |
| prude | / | Noun |
| stuffy | /x | Adjective |
| envious | /xx | Adjective |
| shallow | /x | Adjective |
| grundy | /x | Name |
| overly | /xx | Adverb |
| regimental | xx/x | Noun |
| orderliness | /xxx | Noun |
| affectation | xx/x | Noun |
| scholasticism | x/xxx | Noun |
| legalism | /xxx | Noun |
| exactitude | x/xx | Noun |
| erudition | xx/x | Noun |
| cant | / | Noun |
| thoroughness | /xx | Noun |
| footnotes | /x | Noun |
| exactness | x/x | Noun |
| insistence | x/x | Noun |
| wretch | / | Noun |
| adj | x | Noun |
| phraseology | xx/xx | Noun |
| arrogance | /xx | Noun |
| correctness | x/x | Noun |
| jargon | /x | Noun |
| seeming | /x | Verb |
| mania | /xx | Noun |
| diction | /x | Noun |
| formalistic | /x/x | Adjective |
| adherence | x/x | Noun |
| sounding | /x | Verb |
| innocence | /xx | Noun |
| scholar | /x | Noun |
| precision | x/x | Noun |
| rigor | /x | Noun |
| german | /x | Name |
| tutor | /x | Noun |
| appearing | x/x | Verb |
| scholarship | /xx | Noun |
| formality | x/xx | Noun |
| professors | x/x | Noun |
| imitation | xx/x | Noun |
| accuracy | /xxx | Noun |
| nonsense | /x | Noun |
| streak | / | Noun |
| tone | / | Noun |
| allusions | x/x | Noun |
| weeds | / | Noun |
| fidelity | x/xx | Noun |
| tyranny | /xx | Noun |
| seriousness | /xxx | Noun |
| prose | / | Noun |
| display | x/ | Noun |
| lectures | /x | Noun |
| rigidity | x/xx | Noun |
| style | / | Noun |
| fool | / | Noun |
| critic | /x | Noun |
| humour | /x | Noun |
| distinctions | x/x | Noun |
| zeal | / | Noun |
| dismissed | x/ | Verb |
| exercise | /xx | Noun |
| commentary | /xxx | Noun |
| learning | /x | Noun |
| terminology | xx/xx | Noun |
| phrases | /x | Noun |
| objection | x/x | Noun |
| repetition | xx/x | Noun |
| boastful | /x | Adjective |
| bookish | /x | Adjective |
| businesslike | /xx | Adjective |
| circumspect | /xx | Adjective |
| expression | x/x | Noun |
| fact | / | Noun |
| forthright | // | Adjective, Noun, Adverb |
| irreverent | x/xx | Adjective |
| jocular | /xx | Adjective |
| legalistic | xx/x | Adjective |
| stilted | /x | Adjective |
| unemotional | xx/xx | Adjective |
| unimaginative | xx/xxx | Adjective |
| idiomatic | xxx/x | Adjective, Noun |
| literally | /xxx | Adverb |
| vernacular | x/xx | Noun, Adjective |
| standard | /x | Adjective, Noun |
| collocation | xx/x | Noun |
| milestone | /x | Noun, Verb |
| dialect | /xx | Noun |
| chunk | / | Noun, Verb |
| cluster | /x | Noun, Verb |
| cloth | / | Noun |
| tell | / | Verb, Noun |
| sorta | /x | Adverb |
| no | / | Noun, Adverb, Adjective |
| oh | / | Noun, Verb |
| headlines | /x | Noun |
