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Syllability #3
Choose one syllable from each of the seven groups to form seven words of different lengths; one 7-syllable word, one 6-syllable word, down to a 1-syllable word. Use each syllable only once. Do not change the order of the syllables - if a syllable appears in group 3, it will be the third syllable of a word.
Group 1: Den, Ab, Con, De, Ra, Dis, Ach
Group 2: o, nom, ro, im, ne, gre
Group 3: mat, ga, gate, be, in
Group 4: di, a, ic, tion
Group 5: al, tion, ence
Group 6: ist al
Group 7: ism
Group 1: Den, Ab, Con, De, Ra, Dis, Ach
Group 2: o, nom, ro, im, ne, gre
Group 3: mat, ga, gate, be, in
Group 4: di, a, ic, tion
Group 5: al, tion, ence
Group 6: ist al
Group 7: ism
Answer
Denominationalism (7 syllables) - The tendency to separate into religious denominations.Congregationalist (6 syllables) - One who belongs to a Congregational church or society
Disobedience (5 syllables) - Refusal or failure to obey
Achromatic (4 syllables) - Refracting light without spectral color separation
Abnegate (3 syllables) - To deny something to oneself
Denim (2 syllables) - A coarse twilled cloth, usually cotton, used for jeans, overalls, and work uniforms
Ra (1 syllable) - The ancient Egyptian sun god, the supreme deity represented as a man with the head of a hawk crowned with a solar disk and uraeus
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