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| Word | Syllables | Categories | 
|---|---|---|
| deceased | x/ | Adjective, Adjective | 
| perished | /x | Verb | 
| passed away | /x/ | Phrase, Verb | 
| murdered | /x | Verb | 
| predeceased | xx/ | Verb | 
| death toll | // | Phrase, Noun | 
| suffocated | /xxx | Verb | 
| wrongful death | /x/ | Phrase, Noun | 
| pass away | /x/ | Phrase, Verb | 
| deadened | /x | Adjective | 
| unconsciousness | x/xx | Noun | 
| death | / | Noun | 
| decedent | x/x | Noun | 
| disappeared | xx/ | Verb | 
| death certificate | /x/xx | Phrase, Noun | 
| disappearance | xx/x | Noun | 
| mortality | x/xx | Noun | 
| drowned | / | Verb | 
| decapitated | x/xxx | Adjective | 
| assumed name | x// | Phrase, Noun | 
| cremated | /xx | Verb | 
| killed | / | Verb | 
| obituary | x/xxx | Noun | 
| executed | /xxx | Verb | 
| casualty | /xxx | Noun | 
| in memoriam | xx/xx | Phrase, Adverb, Noun | 
| mortality rate | x/xx/ | Phrase, Noun | 
| terminally ill | /xxxx | Phrase, Adjective | 
| incapacitated | xx/xxx | Verb | 
| died | / | Verb | 
| posthumous | /xx | Adjective | 
| shipwrecked | /x | Adjective | 
| lose consciousness | //xx | Phrase | 
| assassinated | x/xxx | Verb | 
| martyred | /x | Adjective | 
| massacred | /xx | Verb | 
| decomposed | xx/ | Verb | 
| abandoned | x/x | Verb | 
| fatalities | x/xx | Noun | 
| interred | x/ | Verb | 
| presupposed | xx/ | Verb | 
| forgotten | x/x | Verb | 
| entombed | x/ | Verb | 
| passed out | // | Phrase | 
| funerary | /xxx | Adjective | 
| cardiac arrest | /xxx/ | Name, Name | 
| death rate | // | Phrase, Noun | 
| heart failure | //x | Phrase, Noun | 
| submerged | x/ | Adjective | 
| dead duck | // | Phrase, Noun | 
| funeral | /xx | Noun | 
| deadbeat | /x | Noun | 
| disembodied | xx/x | Adjective | 
| bereaved | x/ | Adjective | 
| embalmed | x/ | Adjective | 
| miscarried | x/x | Verb | 
| postmortem | x/x | Noun | 
| decommissioned | xx/x | Verb | 
| mourned | / | Verb | 
| abruptly | x/x | Adverb | 
| absolute | /xx | Adjective, Noun | 
| absolutely | xx/x | Adverb | 
| accused | x/ | Noun, Adjective | 
| afterlife | /xx | Noun | 
| alive | x/ | Adjective | 
| all in | /x | Phrase, Adjective, Noun | 
| alleged | x/ | Adjective | 
| alley | /x | Noun | 
| animal | /xx | Noun, Adjective | 
| animate | /xx | Verb, Adjective | 
| annihilation | xxx/x | Noun | 
| apparent | x/x | Adjective | 
| apprehended | xx/x | Adjective | 
| ascertainable | xx/xx | Adjective | 
| asleep | x/ | Adjective | 
| assumed | x/ | Adjective | 
| at peace | // | Phrase, Adjective | 
| at rest | // | Phrase | 
| away | x/ | Adverb, Adjective, Verb | 
| barren | /x | Adjective, Noun | 
| beat | / | Verb, Noun, Adjective | 
| believed | x/ | Adjective | 
| bloodless | /x | Adjective | 
| body | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| boring | /x | Adjective, Noun | 
| breathless | /x | Adjective | 
| brides | / | Noun | 
| broken | /x | Adjective, Noun | 
| brothers | /x | Noun | 
| bummer | /x | Noun | 
| buried | /x | Adjective | 
| busted | /x | Adjective | 
| cadaver | x/x | Noun | 
| calcined | /x | Adjective | 
| capital | /xx | Noun, Adjective | 
| captain | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| captives | /x | Verb | 
| carcase | /x | Noun | 
| carcass | /x | Noun | 
| celebrated | /xxx | Adjective | 
| cemetery | /xxx | Noun | 
| claimed | / | Noun | 
| cold | / | Adjective, Noun, Adverb | 
| compatriots | x/xx | Noun | 
| complete | x/ | Adjective, Verb, Noun | 
| comrades | /x | Noun | 
| conjectured | x/x | Verb | 
| considered | x/x | Adjective | 
| constructed | x/x | Adjective | 
| constructive | x/x | Adjective | 
| cooked | / | Adjective | 
| corpse | / | Noun, Verb | 
| coupe | / | Noun | 
| crippled | /x | Adjective | 
| cut | / | Verb, Noun, Adjective | 
| damn | / | Adjective, Verb, Adverb, Noun | 
| deadly | /x | Adjective, Adverb | 
| deathly | /x | Adverb, Adjective | 
| decaying | x/x | Noun | 
| deemed | / | Adjective | 
| defunct | x/ | Adjective, Verb, Noun | 
| demented | x/x | Adjective | 
| demise | x/ | Noun, Verb | 
| demonstrable | /xxx | Adjective, Noun | 
| departed | x/x | Adjective, Noun | 
| determinable | x/xxx | Adjective, Noun | 
| discernable | x/xx | Adjective | 
| diseased | x/ | Adjective | 
| distraught | x/ | Adjective | 
| dixie | /x | Name | 
| doctors | /x | Name | 
| doomed | / | Adjective | 
| dormant | /x | Adjective, Noun | 
| down | / | Adverb, Adjective, Verb, Noun | 
| downloaded | /xx | Verb | 
| drained | / | Adjective | 
| duck | / | Noun, Verb | 
| elder | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| empty | /x | Adjective, Verb, Noun | 
| end | / | Noun, Verb | 
| entailed | x/ | Verb | 
| evident | /xx | Adjective | 
| execution | xx/x | Noun | 
| expected | x/x | Adjective | 
| expendable | x/xx | Adjective, Name | 
| extinct | x/ | Adjective, Verb, Noun | 
| extinguished | x/x | Adjective | 
| eyed | / | Adjective | 
| fallen | /x | Adjective, Noun | 
| fatal | /x | Adjective, Noun | 
| fatally | /xx | Adverb | 
| feeding | /x | Noun | 
| finished | /x | Adjective | 
| flakes | / | Noun | 
| flat | / | Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb | 
| floor | / | Noun, Verb | 
| frightened | /x | Adjective | 
| gallows | /x | Noun | 
| gob | / | Noun, Verb | 
| gone | / | Adjective | 
| goner | /x | Noun | 
| goon | / | Noun, Verb | 
| grave | / | Noun, Adjective, Verb | 
| heaven | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| human | /x | Adjective, Noun, Verb | 
| hypothesized | x/xx | Verb | 
| hypothetical | xx/xx | Adjective, Noun | 
| idle | /x | Adjective, Verb, Noun | 
| implied | x/ | Adjective | 
| imputed | x/x | Adjective | 
| inactive | x/x | Adjective, Noun | 
| inanimate | x/xx | Adjective, Noun, Verb | 
| inelastic | xx/x | Adjective | 
| inert | x/ | Adjective, Noun, Verb | 
| inferred | x/ | Adjective, Verb | 
| inoperative | x/xxx | Adjective | 
| insensitive | x/xx | Adjective | 
| lambda | /x | Noun | 
| late | / | Adjective, Adverb, Noun | 
| lethal | /x | Adjective, Noun | 
| life | / | Noun, Verb | 
| lifeless | /x | Adjective | 
| likely | /x | Adjective, Adverb, Noun | 
| litter | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| live | / | Verb, Adjective, Adverb | 
| looking | /x | Verb, Noun | 
| loss | / | Noun, Verb | 
| lost | / | Adjective | 
| luckless | /x | Adjective | 
| maimed | / | Adjective, Noun | 
| malfunctioning | x/xx | Noun | 
| man | / | Noun, Adjective, Verb | 
| manifest | /xx | Adjective, Verb, Noun | 
| matt | / | Name, Adjective | 
| menzies | /x | Name | 
| meta | /x | Noun, Adjective | 
| mitt | / | Noun | 
| morbid | /x | Adjective | 
| morgue | / | Noun | 
| mort | / | Noun | 
| mortal | /x | Adjective, Noun, Adverb | 
| mortally | /xx | Adverb | 
| mortuary | /xxx | Noun, Adjective | 
| nonconscious | x/x | Adjective | 
| noncurrent | x/x | Adjective | 
