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| Word | Syllables | Categories |
|---|---|---|
| sprawl | / | Noun |
| suburbs | /x | Noun |
| outskirts | /x | Noun |
| slum | / | Noun |
| garden city | /x/x | Phrase, Noun |
| cityscape | /xx | Noun |
| projects | /x | Noun |
| bedroom community | /xx/xx | Phrase, Noun |
| concrete jungle | x//x | Phrase, Noun |
| developments | x/xx | Noun |
| metropolis | x/xx | Noun |
| overcrowding | /xxx | Noun |
| housing | /x | Noun |
| outdoors | // | Noun |
| neighborhood | /xx | Noun |
| village | /x | Noun |
| environ | x/x | Name |
| esplanade | xx/ | Noun |
| yard | / | Noun |
| courtyard | /x | Noun |
| garden apartment | /xx/x | Phrase, Noun |
| housing estate | /xx/ | Phrase, Noun |
| squat | / | Adjective |
| plaza | /x | Noun |
| uptown | // | Name |
| inner city | /x/x | Phrase, Noun |
| abandonment | x/xx | Noun |
| industrial park | x/xx/ | Name, Name |
| street | / | Noun |
| expansion | x/x | Noun |
| shopping center | /x/x | Phrase, Noun |
| ghetto | /x | Noun |
| place | / | Noun |
| bypass | /x | Noun |
| industrial estate | x/xxx/ | Name, Name |
| square | / | Noun |
| open air | /x/ | Phrase, Noun |
| apartment building | x/x/x | Phrase, Noun |
| barrio | /xx | Noun |
| shopping | /x | Noun |
| villa | /x | Noun |
| midtown | /x | Noun |
| scheme | / | Noun |
| faubourg | /x | Noun |
| dormitory | /xxx | Noun |
| alleyway | /xx | Noun |
| real estate | /x/ | Phrase, Noun |
| precinct | /x | Noun |
| strip | / | Noun |
| outside | // | Noun |
| slip | / | Noun |
| estate | x/ | Noun |
| intrusion | x/x | Noun |
| crescent | /x | Noun |
| studio apartment | /xxx/x | Phrase, Noun |
| favela | x/x | Noun |
| heights | / | Noun |
| circus | /x | Noun |
| colony | /xx | Noun |
| town | / | Noun |
| settlement | /xx | Noun |
| multifamily | xx/xx | Adjective |
| outpost | /x | Noun |
| barrack | /x | Noun |
| avenue | /xx | Noun |
| debris | x/ | Noun |
| jungle | /x | Noun |
| park | / | Noun |
| bungalow | /xx | Noun |
| strip mall | // | Phrase, Noun |
| commons | /x | Noun |
| aaron | /x | Name |
| abolitionist | xx/xx | Noun, Adjective |
| abortion | x/x | Noun |
| advanced | x/ | Adjective |
| affluence | /xx | Noun |
| affluent | /xx | Adjective, Noun |
| agglomeration | xxx/x | Noun |
| agrarian | x/xx | Adjective, Noun |
| agricultural | xx/xx | Adjective, Name |
| anglo | /x | Name |
| anticlerical | xx/xx | Adjective, Noun |
| anticommunist | xx/xx | Adjective, Noun |
| antipoverty | xx/xx | Adjective |
| antislavery | xx/xx | Adjective |
| area | /xx | Noun |
| asian | /x | Adjective, Name |
| averaging | /xx | Noun |
| bourgeois | x/ | Adjective, Noun, Verb |
| buildup | /x | Noun |
| busing | /x | Noun |
| central | /x | Adjective, Noun |
| cities | /x | Noun |
| civic | /x | Adjective, Noun |
| civil | /x | Adjective, Name |
| civilian | x/x | Adjective, Noun |
| civilizational | xxx/xx | Adjective |
| colonial | x/xx | Adjective, Noun |
| commercial | x/x | Adjective, Noun |
| communities | x/xx | Noun |
| conglomeration | xxx/x | Noun |
| councils | /x | Noun |
| cultural | /xx | Adjective |
| decentralization | xxxx/x | Noun |
| deforestation | xxx/x | Noun |
| desegregated | x/xxx | Verb, Adjective |
| disarray | xx/ | Noun, Verb |
| disorganization | xxxx/x | Noun |
| dispersal | x/x | Noun |
| dispersion | x/x | Noun |
| disruption | x/x | Noun |
| district | /x | Noun, Verb, Adjective |
| downtown | // | Noun, Adjective, Adverb |
| electrification | xxxx/x | Noun |
| encroachment | x/x | Noun |
| exodus | /xx | Noun, Verb |
| expanding | x/x | Verb |
| extending | x/x | Verb |
| extension | x/x | Noun |
| fabric | /x | Noun, Verb |
| fair | / | Adjective, Noun, Verb, Adverb |
| foreign | /x | Adjective, Name |
| freeways | /x | Name |
| growth | / | Noun |
| heaps | / | Noun, Adverb |
| illiteracy | x/xxx | Noun |
| industrial | x/xx | Adjective, Name |
| intercity | /xxx | Noun, Adjective |
| latino | x/x | Name, Adjective |
| local | /x | Adjective, Noun, Adverb |
| maori | /x | Name, Adjective |
| metro | /x | Noun, Adjective |
| metropolitan | xx/xx | Name, Adjective |
| modern | /x | Adjective, Noun |
| multiethnic | xx/x | Adjective, Noun |
| municipal | x/xx | Adjective, Name |
| municipalities | xxx/xx | Noun |
| old | / | Adjective, Noun |
| peri | /x | Name |
| phasing | /x | Noun |
| physical | /xx | Adjective, Noun |
| plating | /x | Noun |
| pollutants | x/x | Noun |
| populated | /xxx | Adjective |
| pornography | x/xx | Noun |
| prosperity | x/xx | Noun |
| redevelopment | xx/xx | Noun |
| residential | xx/x | Adjective, Noun |
| rural | /x | Adjective, Noun |
| scanner | /x | Noun |
| scatter | /x | Noun, Verb |
| segregated | /xxx | Adjective |
| settled | /x | Adjective |
| shing | / | Noun, Verb |
| skyscraper | /xx | Noun |
| spanning | /x | Noun |
| sparsity | /xx | Noun |
| spread | / | Verb, Noun |
| suburbanization | xxxx/x | Noun |
| super | /x | Noun, Adjective, Adverb, Verb |
| tangle | /x | Noun, Verb |
| tariff | /x | Noun, Verb |
| temperance | /xx | Noun |
| tissue | /x | Noun, Verb |
| tourist | /x | Noun, Verb |
| township | /x | Noun |
| urbana | x/x | Name |
| urbanisation | /xx/x | Noun |
| urbanism | /xx | Noun |
| urbanization | xxx/x | Noun |
| urbanized | /xx | Noun |
| zone | / | Noun, Verb |
