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| Word | Syllables | Categories |
|---|---|---|
| written | /x | Adjective, Verb |
| abbreviation | xxx/x | Noun |
| notation | x/x | Noun |
| acronym | /xx | Noun |
| abbreviated | x/xxx | Adjective |
| terminology | xx/xx | Noun |
| colloquial | x/xx | Noun, Adjective |
| euphemism | /xxx | Noun |
| lingo | /x | Noun |
| jargon | /x | Noun |
| mnemonic | x/x | Noun |
| pejorative | x/xx | Adjective |
| parlance | /x | Noun |
| simplification | xxx/x | Noun |
| sort | / | Noun |
| vernacular | x/xx | Noun |
| metaphor | /xx | Noun |
| general | /xx | Noun |
| analogous | x/xx | Adjective |
| telegraphic | /xxx | Noun |
| descriptor | x/x | Noun |
| reductive | x/x | Adjective |
| descriptive | x/x | Adjective |
| signifier | /xxx | Noun |
| imprecise | /xx | Noun |
| phrase | / | Noun |
| nomenclature | /xxx | Noun |
| wordy | /x | Adjective |
| ambiguous | x/xx | Adjective |
| term | / | Noun |
| ubiquitous | x/xx | Adjective |
| phonetic alphabet | x/x/xx | Name, Name |
| alphabet soup | /xx/ | Phrase, Noun |
| contraction | x/x | Noun |
| expansion | x/x | Noun |
| short and | /x | Phrase, Noun |
| abbr | x | Noun |
| diag | /x | Noun |
| alphabet | /xx | Noun |
| initials | x/x | Noun |
| hyphen | /x | Noun |
| abridgment | x/x | Noun |
| letter | /x | Noun |
| caps | / | Noun |
| frat | / | Noun |
| number | /x | Noun |
| code word | // | Phrase, Noun |
| ditto | /x | Noun |
| conj | / | Noun |
| calc | / | Noun |
| abridgement | x/x | Noun |
| typing | /x | Noun, Verb |
| bookkeeping | /xx | Noun |
| convenient | x/x | Adjective |
| illegible | x/xx | Adjective |
| binary | /xx | Noun |
| scribbled | /x | Verb |
| transcribed | x/ | Verb |
| journalistic | xx/x | Adjective |
| cryptic | /x | Adjective |
| cinematic | xx/x | Adjective |
| deciphering | x/xx | Verb |
| handy | /x | Adjective |
| keeping | /x | Noun |
| jotted | /x | Verb |
| transcription | x/x | Noun |
| verbal | /x | Adjective |
| kind | / | Noun |
| misleading | x/x | Adjective |
| pictorial | x/xx | Adjective |
| phonetic | x/x | Adjective |
| useful | /x | Adjective |
| semester | x/x | Noun |
| brand | / | Noun |
| symbolic | x/x | Adjective |
| conversational | xx/xx | Adjective |
| mathematical | xx/xx | Adjective |
| conceptual | x/xx | Adjective |
| syntactic | //x | Adjective |
| visual | /xx | Adjective |
| graphic | /x | Adjective |
| courses | /x | Noun |
| form | / | Noun |
| learned | / | Adjective, Verb |
| directory | x/xx | Noun |
| mastered | /x | Verb |
| invention | x/x | Noun |
| musical | /xx | Adjective |
| accounting | x/x | Noun |
| poetic | x/x | Adjective |
| invented | x/x | Verb |
| rhetorical | x/xx | Adjective |
| specifying | /xxx | Verb |
| bit | / | Noun |
| helpful | /x | Adjective |
| code | / | Noun |
| theatrical | x/xx | Adjective |
| describing | x/x | Verb |
| practicing | /xx | Verb |
| symbols | /x | Noun |
| use | / | Verb |
| serves | / | Verb |
| neat | / | Adjective |
| cluster | /x | Noun |
| linguistic | x/x | Adjective |
| complex | /x | Noun |
| lessons | /x | Noun |
| theological | xx/xx | Adjective |
| perceptual | x/xx | Adjective |
| chemical | /xx | Adjective |
| crude | / | Adjective |
| piece | / | Noun |
| system | /x | Noun |
| skills | / | Noun |
| teaching | /x | Verb |
| recorded | x/x | Verb |
| bureaucratic | xx/x | Adjective |
| mental | /x | Adjective |
| merely | /x | Adverb |
| stating | /x | Verb |
| referring | x/x | Verb |
| just | / | Adverb |
| communicating | x/xxx | Verb |
| expressions | x/x | Noun |
| artistic | x/x | Adjective |
| abridged | x/ | Adjective |
| age | / | Noun, Verb |
| analogy | x/xx | Noun |
| artifice | /xx | Noun, Verb |
| braille | / | Noun, Verb, Adjective |
| briefer | /x | Noun |
| camouflage | /xx | Noun, Verb |
| cliche | x/ | Noun, Verb |
| concise | x/ | Adjective, Verb |
| constructs | x/ | Noun, Verb |
| cumbersome | /xx | Adjective |
| elaborations | xxx/x | Adjective |
| figurative | /xxx | Adjective |
| gymnastics | x/x | Noun |
| hieroglyphic | xx/x | Adjective, Noun |
| laconic | x/x | Adjective |
| reporting | x/x | Noun |
| shortcut | /x | Noun, Verb |
| sleight | / | Noun |
| sophistication | xxx/x | Noun |
| stenographer | x/xx | Noun |
| succinct | x/ | Adjective |
| terse | / | Adjective |
| transcript | /x | Noun, Verb |
| trope | x | Noun, Verb |
| vocabulary | x/xxx | Noun |
| headlines | /x | Noun |
| chunk | / | Noun, Verb |
| collocation | xx/x | Noun |
| idiomatic | xxx/x | Adjective, Noun |
| standard | /x | Adjective, Noun |
| dialect | /xx | Noun |
| tell | / | Verb, Noun |
| literally | /xxx | Adverb |
| stovepipe | /x | Noun, Verb |
| daylight | /x | Noun, Verb |
| milestone | /x | Noun, Verb |
| sorta | /x | Adverb |
| no | / | Noun, Adverb, Adjective |
| stonewall | /x | Name, Verb, Adjective |
