SIX SYLLABLE WORDS

ENGLISH LANGUAGE S.S.S2 SECOND TERM

WEEK SEVEN

THEME: SPEECH WORK

SIX SYLLABLE WORDS

PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE

Students should be able to;

1. Identify words with six syllables
2. Recognize and pronounce the words correctly

CONTENT

Here are few Six Syllable Words. To understand word stress, we have to understand syllables. Words have one or more syllables. A syllable is a unit of pronunciation. It consists of either a vowel sound alone or a vowel and one or more consonant sounds. Notice that (with a few rare exceptions) every syllable contains at least one vowel (a, e, i, o or u) or vowel sound. Every word is made from syllables. Each word has one, two, three or more syllables.

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• Antediluvian
• Circumnavigation
• Disambiguation
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