How To Use Polysyllabic In A Sentence
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The translation of the Indian name of this female is Woman of the Green Valley; or, according to the polysyllabical system of her people, O-she-wush-ko-da-wa-qua.
Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers
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Some children, however, have problems with polysyllabic words, and so they need explicit teaching, coupled with broad-based reading experiences.
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The gangs were suspicious of polysyllabic talk, of meanings that were too precise.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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What we really need is a small, elegant phone that makes typing real, polysyllabic words fast and easy.
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Narrative supersedes melody time after time; there are no real songs, just cacophonous noodling and stacks and stacks of polysyllabic words.
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Both monosyllabic and polysyllabic words representing closed, silent-e, and vowel digraph or diphthong syllable patterns are presented.
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It's one less polysyllabic name for me to remember.
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As they continue to develop, children learn to segment polysyllabic words into syllables as they approach kindergarten age and monosyllabic words into phonemes around first grade.
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He is witty, he puns, and sometimes he employs the polysyllabic circumlocution of the nineteenth-century humorists.
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A word containing many syllables is a polysyllable or polysyllabic word, such as selectivity and utilitarianism.
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They could subtly deliver literate, polysyllabic dialog without having to awkwardly strain, as do our young actors today, who grow up with the illiterate cinema, not the stage.
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There is no other pathway to empowerment, regeneration, capacity-building, participation, and all the other polysyllabic words in the jargon of a development, which serves its practitioners rather than its beneficiaries.
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Most, in fact, find themselves asking the class how to pronounce polysyllabic words, how to operate a projector or where they can find whiteboard markers.
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No more biblish, no more tiresome polysyllabic nonsense, no more mundane middle-class mutterings.
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Farwell also exhibits a Gibson-esque fascination with polysyllabic techno-gobbledygook.
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Surely this precocious, polysyllabic facility is an invaluable boon to cognitive development.
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All of the verbs in this excerpt are polysyllabic, strategically alliterative, and speak to various kinds of action that jolt the reader.
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Whereas in New England, with Massachusetts Avenue and Commonwealth Avenues and plenty of Connecticut Avenues in other places, the polysyllabic names cry out for shortening.
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The dancers followed Nijinsky's count, too… and as Russian numbers above ten are polysyllabic - eighteen, for example, vosemnadsat - in the fast tempo movements neither he nor they could keep up.
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Slither: I could start off by getting all academic on you and talking about the conscious role of the metaphor of sexual violation in horror films, or I could get all polysyllabic on you and use words like "polysyllabic," and while I can't promise I won't commit those sins later on in this review, dear reader, I will say at the start that
Pajiba
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I present a new breed of cultural critic, unleashing a fresh brand of polysyllabic pontification.
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All of the verbs in this excerpt are polysyllabic, strategically alliterative, and speak to various kinds of action that jolt the reader.
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Here, alas, an ink-stained wretch fell behind in his polysyllabic note-taking.
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The comics pages didn't draw him in as much as all those polysyllabic names.
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The authors of Passionate Uncertainty rarely pass up an opportunity to use ten words when two would suffice, polysyllabic words when simple ones would do, and jargon-filled blather when clarity is called for.
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He is witty, he puns, and sometimes he employs the polysyllabic circumlocution of the nineteenth-century humorists.
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The translation of the Indian name of this female is Woman of the Green Valley; or, according to the polysyllabical system of her people, O-shé-wush-ko-da-wá-qua.
Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers
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The language has innumerable binomial compounds and collocations, as well as many "sesquisyllabic" or polysyllabic words of Khmer or Indic origin that contain unstressed vowels, so that the phonological texture of the language is very different from that of uncompromisingly monosyllabic languages like Chinese and Vietnamese.
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That's a polysyllabic euphemism for a one party state.
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Though the terms "gastronome" and "epicure" define the same thing, i.e. a person who enjoys food for pleasure, these words are perceived by the modern American consumer as elitist due to their Latin root forms and polysyllabic pronunciations.
Sophie Brickman: What is a Foodie? Am I One? Are You?
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Don't be intimidated by the polysyllabic title of this article - it really can be fairly easy stuff - if I can do a good job in explaining it.
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Chinese is monosyllabic, Japanese is polysyllabic; Japanese verbs, adjectives and adverbs inflect, whereas they don't in Chinese; and Japanese has a system of postpositions that Chinese doesn't.
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Quite regularly, ‘my eyes glaze over’ when I read polysyllabic discourse on the themes of poststructuralism and postmodernism; what I understand is largely truism or error, but that is only a fraction of the total word count.
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Chinese is monosyllabic, Japanese is polysyllabic; Japanese verbs, adjectives and adverbs inflect, whereas they don't in Chinese; and Japanese has a system of postpositions that Chinese doesn't.
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But while there is but little analogy in the sounds of the lexicography, so far as known, it is in this quarter of the globe, that we perceive resemblances in some words of the Shemitic group of languages, positive coincidences in the features of its syntax, and in its unwieldy personal and polysyllabical and aggregated forms; and the inquiry is one, which may be expected to produce auspicious results.
Incentives to the Study of the Ancient Period of American History An address, delivered before the New York Historical Society, at its forty-second anniversary, 17th November 1846
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n. - voluntary or automatic movement. autokinetic, adj. autological adj. - self-descriptive, or being a word that exemplifies what it means, e.g. "english" is english, "polysyllabic" is polysyllabic adj. - formed after its or one's own pattern. automorphism,
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We measured this polysyllabical echo with great exactness, and found the distance to fall very short of Dr. Plot's rule for distinct articulation; for the doctor, in his history of Oxfordshire, allows a hundred and twenty feet for the return of each syllable distinctly; hence this echo, which gives ten distinct syllables, ought to measure four hundred yards, or one hundred and twenty feet to each syllable; whereas our distance is only two hundred and fifty-eight yards, or near seventy-five feet, to each syllable.
The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2
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We should all know to avoid polysyllabic jargon.
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Not in so many words: The words were all in polysyllabic legal language and therefore barely comprehensible.
FOLLY
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(Either that or this transplant simply can't comprehend the term when spoken with a polysyllabic Dallas drawl.)
The 'Riffs Interview: 'CYANIDE & HAPPINESS's' Dave McElfatrick tackles visas, viscera & American humor
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Then there is the way senators speak - at length, often alone in the august hall but for a C-Span camera, with bonus points for detailed digressions and polysyllabic words.
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After that my vocabulary runs out of obscure polysyllabic words and I'm forced to just stutter, stammer and blurt out something like Oh yeah?
Facebook for Fishing?
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I for one would love to see those polysyllabic place names, like Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll-llantysiliogogogoch, rendered in Cyrillic.
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Now I'm just a refugee from over at the Gun Nut blog so my brow is a little more pronounced and I can't comprehend polysyllabic words nearly as well as the average water frother, but let me kinda turn the question around: when do you think someone's going to bring their bass tackle to the streamside and put a micropterus salmoides-sized butt-whippin 'on some fly anglers?
Can a Fly Rod Win a Bass Tournament?
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Moreover, as noted in section 5.2.1, there is a marked tendency for polysyllabic words to commence with a stressed syllable.
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With 26 letters to choose from, why do we keep fixing upon the only letter in the English alphabet with a polysyllabic name?
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It is not for Mr. Buckley to admit to an inattentive memory and careless writing when the polysyllabic evasion of "antonomasia" is available.
Happy Days Are Here Again
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Chinese is monosyllabic, Japanese is polysyllabic; Japanese verbs, adjectives and adverbs inflect, whereas they don't in Chinese.
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That must have been one hell of a polysyllabic conversation.
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He was too busy mispronouncing polysyllabic words, invading countries and getting mixed up about weapons of Mass Destruction to be able to show up and admit that "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" was his favorite Oscar-winning tune.
Barack Obama, no one cares about your favorite Oscar song
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In recent years, the pharmaceutical industry has been both clever and deceptive in giving this kind of polysyllabic, clinical name to even mild, transient versions of common ailments as a way of persuading both doctors and patients that their new, potent drugs are essential to our well-being.
Dr. Andrew Weil: Let's Take the Stomachache Out of Health Care Reform: One Patient's Story
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As they continue to develop, children learn to segment polysyllabic words into syllables as they approach kindergarten age and monosyllabic words into phonemes around first grade.
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My only cavil about Aden Gillett's neurotically suave Charles is that he sometimes puts emotion before diction so that you lose the full richness of his past relationship with the vividly polysyllabic Mrs Winthrop-Llewellyn.
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It is actually something of a challenge to locate sentences in The Structure of Evolutionary Theory that are not unwieldy, ridiculously self-referential, and grotesquely polysyllabic.
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An autological word describes itself, e.g., ˜polysyllabic™ is polysllabic, ˜English™ is English, ˜noun™ is a noun, etc.
Epistemic Paradoxes
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I present a new breed of cultural critic, unleashing a fresh brand of polysyllabic pontification.
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A word containing many syllables is a polysyllable or polysyllabic word, such as selectivity and utilitarianism.
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Examining the ingredient listing is also a challenge in polysyllabic pronunciation techniques, not to mention requiring a chemistry reference book to understand what we are reading.
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Mark Twain scores lower than Reader's Digest in one calculation, because, I'm guessing, he likes to insert periods, spices things up with some very short sentences, and edits out stuffy polysyllabic words.
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And both these words, as well as individual, which must be treated more at length in the next section, are illustrations of a tendency that we have called polysyllabic humour and discussed in the Chapter Airs and Graces.
Slang.
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And there's that love of Latin, obscure and polysyllabic words.
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They cling to polysyllabic professors who find clever ways to say the same dumb things over and over again.
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At least half of the stuff on the tiny screen made no sense at all, just a lot of high tech polysyllabic gobbledygook that was real impressive but could've been Greek for all she knew.
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As to the charge of ‘pseudo-intellectual revisionism’ I don't think this means much of anything beyond polysyllabic name-calling.
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But when the inflectional form of language became so far advanced as to have its scholars and grammarians, they seem to have united in extirpating all such polysynthetical or polysyllabic monsters, as devouring invaders of the aboriginal forms.
The Coming Race
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Many we have discovered that return the cry of a pack of dogs, the notes of a hunting-horn, a tunable ring of bells, or the melody of birds very agreeably; but we were still at a loss for a polysyllabical articulate echo, till a young gentleman, who had parted from his company in a summer evening walk, and was calling after them, stumbled upon a very curious one in a spot where it might least be expected.
The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2
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The piece begins with an unusual take on what H.W. Fowler called polysyllabic humour, ‘electrocardiogram’ and ‘phantasmagoria’ appearing in lieu of swear words.
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With a remarkable 37 or so ingredients, many of which are polysyllabic chemical compounds, Twinkies would seem to embody the antithesis of that rule …
What’s In A Twinkie? | Impact Lab
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Now I'm just a refugee from over at the Gun Nut blog so my brow is a little more pronounced and I can't comprehend polysyllabic words nearly as well as the average water frother, but let me kinda turn the question around: when do you think someone's going to bring their bass tackle to the streamside and put a micropterus salmoides-sized butt-whippin 'on some fly anglers?
Can a Fly Rod Win a Bass Tournament?
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Both monosyllabic and polysyllabic words representing closed, silent-e, and vowel digraph or diphthong syllable patterns are presented.
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Greek has a polysyllabic vocabulary and it is often easier to communicate using something approximating to English - something that drives defenders of the Greek language wild with indignation.
