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| Word | Syllables | Categories |
|---|---|---|
| illiterate | x/xx | Adjective |
| prehistoric | xx/x | Noun |
| primitive | /xx | Adjective |
| prehistory | xx/x | Noun |
| paleolithic | xxx/x | Name |
| nonlinguistic | xx/x | Adjective |
| literate | /xx | Adjective |
| premodern | x/x | Noun |
| anthropologists | xx/xx | Noun |
| precolonial | xx/xx | Noun |
| ancient | /x | Noun |
| antediluvian | /xx/xx | Adjective |
| sumerian | x/xx | Name |
| untutored | x/x | Adjective |
| hellenistic | xx/x | Name |
| folkways | /x | Noun |
| hominids | /xx | Noun |
| societies | x/xx | Noun |
| neolithic | xx/x | Name |
| tribe | / | Noun |
| ethnographers | x/xx | Noun |
| caveman | /x | Noun |
| mesopotamian | xxx/xx | Name |
| neanderthals | x/xx | Name |
| orality | x/xx | Noun |
| minoan | x/x | Name |
| civilizations | xxx/x | Noun |
| unlettered | x/x | Adjective |
| preverbal | x/x | Adjective |
| uncultured | x/x | Adjective |
| unread | x/ | Adjective |
| preindustrial | xx/xx | Adjective |
| inarticulate | xx/xx | Adjective |
| uninitiated | xx/xxx | Adjective |
| unenlightened | xx/x | Adjective |
| uncultivated | x/xxx | Adjective |
| undeveloped | xx/x | Adjective |
| unwritten | x/x | Adjective |
| uneducated | x/xxx | Adjective |
| naive | x/ | Adjective |
| nonstandard | x/x | Adjective |
| unaware | xx/ | Adjective |
| uninformed | xx/ | Adjective |
| developed | x/x | Verb |
| untrained | x/ | Adjective |
| people | /x | Noun |
| culture | /x | Noun |
| greece | / | Name |
| ancestors | /xx | Noun |
| religions | x/x | Noun |
| past | / | Noun |
| communities | x/xx | Noun |
| children | /x | Noun |
| groups | / | Noun |
| populations | xx/x | Noun |
| era | /x | Noun |
| aboriginal | xx/xx | Adjective, Name |
| amerindian | xx/xx | Adjective, Name |
| bantu | /x | Name |
| civilised | /xx | Adjective |
| civilized | /xx | Adjective |
| ideals | x/ | Adjective |
| melanesian | xx/x | Name, Adjective |
| stonewall | /x | Name, Verb, Adjective |
| shirtless | /x | Adjective |
| bulletproof | /xx | Adjective, Verb |
| no | / | Noun, Adverb, Adjective |
| anymore | xx/ | Adverb |
| literally | /xxx | Adverb |
| sorta | /x | Adverb |
| expression | x/x | Noun |
| milestone | /x | Noun, Verb |
