Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1885 — How Do Yon Pronounce Them? [ARTICLE]

How Do Yon Pronounce Them?

Here are twenty words selected while reading a daily newspaper. There is not a “batch-word” in the list. Look them up and see how many of them you pronounce correctly: Tirade, Ornate, Decorous, Research, Resource, Contumely, Conversant, Hyperbole, Molecule, Docile, Melodrama, Mercantile, Misconstrue, Mythology, Nauseous, Pomade* Provocative, Sacrifice, Bromide, and Topographic.

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