Word Stress

TESTS ON STRESS
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Choose the word that has stress pattern different from that of the other words.
TEST 1.
1. A. certificate B. manufacture C. entertainment D. obligation
2. A. confident B. calculus C. specific D. precedent
3. A. acrobat B. apprentice C. average D. catalogue
4. A. complicated B. demonstrate C. communism D. convenient
5. A. experience B. festival C. fascinated D. energy
6. A. moreover B. memorial C. Olympic D. orphanage
7. A. javelin B. interesting C. material D. musical
8. A. motorcycle B. furniture C. difficult D. detective
9. A. conference B. Canada C. magnitude D. Argentina
10. A. librarian B. respectable C. Internet D. victorious
TEST 2.
1. A. assistant B. decision C. redundant D. management
2. A. essential B. average C. promotion D. deliver
3. A. favourable B. evaluate C. democracy D. relationship
4. A. cafeteria B. laboratory C. university D. explanation
5. A. education B. compulsory C. technology D. intelligent
6. A. arrival B. reception C. prestigious D. literal
7. A. computer B. dependence C. obvious D. horizon
8. A. delicious B. generate C. confidence D. theory
9. A. company B. miracle C. atmosphere D. employment
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A. official B. recommend C. informal
D. disturbance
TEST 3.
1. A. coincide B. currency C. dictionary D. cultural
2. A. committee B. community C. creative D. definite

3. A. invigorate B. telegraph C. terminus D. primitive
4. A. Malaysia B. Myanmar C. Rumania D. Bulgaria
5. A. propaganda B. nationality C. ordinarily D. ingenuity
6. A. Parisian B. average C. generate D. punishment
7. A. instrument B. calendar C. curious D. commercial
8. A. potato B. policeman C. November D. cinema
9. A. occasional B. industrial C. information D. variety
10 A. contaminate B. attractive C. emphatic D. corporate
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TEST 4.
1. A. civilian B. bacteria C. bookbinder D. assembly
2. A. apartheid B. wonderful C. universe D. principal
3. A. virtually B. tobacco C. statesmanship D. weightlessness
4. A. sincerely B. signature C. synthetic D. productive
5. A. architecture B. alphabetical C. opportunity D. international
6. A. individual B. engineering C. remarkable D. disadvantage
7. A. competition B. absolutely C. mathematic D. advantageous
8. A. patriotic B. racialism C. federation D. Japanese
9. A. associate B. marathon C. clarify D. government
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A. colonial B. professor C. inhabitant D. colony

TEST 5.
1. A. funeral B. Canadian C. puported C. puported
2. A. supervisor B. investigate C. untreatable C. untreatable
3. A. technological B. personality C. representative C. representative
4. A. caterpillar B. exceeding C. existence C. existence

5. A. picturesque B. revelation C. humanitarian C. humanitarian
6. A. refugee B. impudence C. mountaineer C. mountaineer
7. A. devilish B. implicature C. glorify C. glorify
8. A. abnormality B. photography C. proverbial C. proverbial
9. A. understand B. distinguish C. usherette C. usherette
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A. innovative B. automate C. womankind C. womankind

TEST 6.
1. A. prescription B. assassinate C. accuracy D. ambiguous
2. A. altitude B. beverage C. anecdote D. cathedral
3. A. December B. amplify C. elephant D. favourite
4. A. frequency B. gratitude C. equator D. habit
5. A. luxury B. cosmetics C. protection D. investment
6. A. economy B. accompany C. presentation D. successfully
7. A. romantic B. popular C. financial D. reduction
8. A. intimacy B. component C. customer D. prospect
9. A. accurate B. exercise C. computer D. delicate
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A. preservation B. perversity C. magnificent D. potentially
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TEST 7.
1. A. vanilla B. graffiti C. indifferently D. ambiguous
2. A. satisfactory B. assassin C. centenary D. cathedral
3. A. interior B. shorthand C. delightful D. favourite
4. A. ecology B. outwit C. automatic D. habit
5. A. commando B. exceptional C. remove D. investment

6. A. excellent B. derelict C. discard D. successfully
7. A. tragedy B. parallel C. yesterday D. reduction
8. A. infer B. mountain C. eternal D. prospect
9. A. appetite B. opponent C. congregate D. delicate
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A. amazing B. shampoo C. accustom D. potentially

TEST 8.
1. A. insist B. require C. assist D. glacier
2. A. apparent B. attendance C. ancestry D. alternative
3. A. abnormality B. continental C. mechanical D. occupation
4. A. costume B. besides C. complain D. around
5. A. outnumber B. organic C. singular D. Nigeria
6. A. perversity B. miraculous C. uncertainty D. miscellaneous
7. A. metropolis B. preliminary C. invaluable D. analyst
8. A. politics B. political C. mudslide D. television
9. A. tobacco B. tomorrow C. sulphuric D. certainty
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A. divine B. signature C. scholarship D. orator

TEST 9.
1. A. cashier B. wealthy C. workshop D. turkey
2. A. sanitary B. salesmanship C. immense D. oxygen
3. A. botanist B. subsidiary C. authorship D. applicant
4. A. mechanized B. trapeze C. official D. subscription
5. A. across B. airmail C. giraffe D. banana
6. A. accept B. attractive C. almost D. because
7. A. crocodile B. anywhere C. cigarette D. comedy

8. A. activity B. envelope C. massacre D. hospital
9. A. photograph B. severance C. pantomime D. historian
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A. appointment B. bedtime C. borrow D. image
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TEST 10.
1. A. material B. ornament C. remember D. together
2. A. stomachache B. stationer C. typewriter D. adoration
3. A. classmate B. cartoon C. disp D. canteen
4. A. Christmas B. depend C. electric D. emotion
5. A. etiquette B. earache C. empty D. deceased
6. A. forget B. fountain C. enormous D. headmaster
7. A. homesick B. highland C. sunbathe D. suggest
8. A. umbrella B. medicine C. mistletoe D. magazine
9. A. orchard B. peanut C. shadowy D. September
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A. sunburn B. engine C. eternal D.
pianist

TEST 11.
1. A. contemptuous B. thermometer C. available D. comfortable
2. A. curricular B. xenophobia C. historical D. grammatical
3. A. grammarian B. parameter C. personify D. repetitious
4. A. counteraction B. accompany C. statistical D. penultimate
5. A. abacus B. democrat C. paperback D. uranium
6. A. bookshelf B. commerce C. submariner D. arid
7. A. aquatic B. theology C. astound D. arithmetaic

8. A. lieutenant B. chancellor C. psychiatrist D. adversity
9. A. paranormal B. astronomy C. karaoke D. documentary
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A. insurgent B. Mongolia C. aquarium D. amnesty

TEST 12.
1. A. metabolic B. perform C. administer D. majority
2. A. analytical B. examination C. resurrect D. agricultural
3. A. pharmacology B. biographical C. trigonometry D. enthusiastic
4. A. nonsensical B. opposition C. astonishment D. geometry
5. A. journalese B. preferential C. vegetarian D. penetrative
6. A. condominium B. generational C. sentimental D. parliamentarian
7. A. genetics B. limerick C. generic D. fanatic
8. A. grotesque B. chronology C. anthropoid D. imbroglio
9. A. deodorant B. emergency C. consultancy D. archetypal
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A. receptor B. reshuffle C. replicate D. engagement
TEST 13.
1. A. absurdity B. particular C. polyphony D. politician
2. A. emulate B. Pacific C. newspaper D. imitate
3. A. memorable B. medicinal C. parole D. promotional
4. A. genuine B. fortunate C. genocide D. kangaroo
5. A. descendent B. Gregorian C. ornamental D. delivery
6. A. substantial B. stalactite C. alkali D. opportune
7. A. pneumonia B. cosmetics C. protection D. shareholder
8. A. academy B. neurologist C. beneficial D. eradicate
9. A. habitual B. approximate C. accommodate D. aspiration

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A. preference B. dramatic C. Arabia D. objective

TEST 14.
1. A. architect B. temperament C. salary D. arena
2. A. ceremonial B. engineer C. altitude D. Portuguese
3. A. compulsory B. satellite C. gallery D. indicate
4. A. receive B. abound C. sustain D. foreign
5. A. considerate B. economic C. redundancy D. communicate
6. A. important B. consistent C. impotent D. assemble
7. A. protestant B. cultural C. character D. phenomenon
8. A. evidence B. persuasively C. interval D. custody
9. A. vulnerable B. participate C. intellect D. interviewer
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A. corporal B. heritage C. document D. apprehend

TEST 15.
1. A. ultraviolet B. competitive C. photosynthesis D. pedophilia
2. A. advocate B. regime C. adverbial D. apostle
3. A. complication B. matrimonial C. contradiction D. academician
4. A. parody B. absent C. lemonade D. quantity
5. A. emperor B. inertia C. custody D. derelict
6. A. compliance B. encounter C. perpendicular D. continual
7. A. insolent B. aroma C. disaster D. adrenalin
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