USING THE DICTIONARY
diacritical mark
a mark placed on, over, or under a letter to indicate pronunciation, stress, and accent
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furlough
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lawyer
The hard th sound in this is shown by the symbol _____.
The italics th
stress
the greater or lesser force given to certain syllables; accent
phonetics
the system of sounds in a language
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timidity
The word stress is another word for accent.
True
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furnish
The system of sounds in a language is called
phonetics
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picture
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proceeded
Based on the pronunciation key chart above, a vowel with a breve () above it, (such as in words like hat, hot, it, cup, let ) is a _____ vowel sound.
short