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JAMB Use of English 2005 Question 97

Question 97

Word Stress

Choose the option that has a different stress pattern from the others

  1. A.interpreter
  2. B.remarkable
  3. C.impossible
  4. D.criticism
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Answer: D (criticism)

Explanation

in-TER-pre-ter, re-MARK-a-ble and im-POS-si-ble are stressed on the second syllable; CRI-ti-cism is stressed on the first.