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| Word | Syllables | Categories | 
|---|---|---|
| stiff | / | Adjective, Noun, Verb, Adverb | 
| tough | / | Adverb, Adjective, Noun, Verb | 
| hardened | /x | Verb, Adjective | 
| tight | / | Adjective, Adjective, Adverb, Verb | 
| tricky | /x | Verb, Adjective | 
| soured | /x | Adjective, Adjective | 
| arduous | /xx | Adjective, Adjective | 
| solid | /x | Adjective, Adjective, Noun, Adverb | 
| trying | /x | Adverb, Adjective, Noun, Verb | 
| backbreaking | /xx | Verb, Adjective | 
| difficult | /xx | Adjective, Adjective, Verb | 
| problematic | xx/x | Verb, Adjective, Noun | 
| laborious | x/xx | Noun, Adjective | 
| effortful | /xx | Adjective, Adjective | 
| awkward | /x | Adjective, Adjective, Adverb, Noun | 
| challenging | /xx | Noun, Adjective, Noun | 
| uphill | // | Noun, Adjective, Adverb, Noun | 
| firmly | /x | Noun, Adverb | 
| grueling | /xx | Adverb, Adjective, Noun | 
| erect | x/ | Noun, Adjective, Verb | 
| gruelling | /x | Verb, Adjective, Noun | 
| strong | / | Noun, Adjective, Adverb, Noun | 
| rugged | /x | Noun, Adjective | 
| heavy | /x | Adjective, Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb | 
| troublesome | /xx | Verb, Adjective | 
| delicate | /xx | Adjective, Adjective, Noun | 
| severe | x/ | Noun, Adjective, Noun | 
| heavily | /xx | Noun, Adverb | 
| rough | / | Adverb, Adjective, Noun, Verb, Adverb | 
| harsh | / | Adverb, Adjective, Verb, Noun | 
| serious | /xx | Noun, Adjective, Adverb | 
| sticky | /x | Adverb, Adjective, Noun, Verb | 
| vexed | / | Verb, Adjective | 
| tall | / | Adjective, Adjective, Noun | 
| rigorous | /xx | Noun, Adjective | 
| baffling | /xx | Adjective, Adjective, Noun | 
| brutal | /x | Noun, Adjective | 
| rocky | /x | Adjective, Adjective, Name | 
| embarrassing | x/xx | Name, Adjective, Noun | 
| fractious | /x | Noun, Adjective | 
| thorny | /x | Adjective, Adjective | 
| cruel | /x | Adjective, Adjective, Adverb, Verb, Noun | 
| set | / | Noun, Verb, Noun, Adjective | 
| calculating | /xxx | Adjective, Adjective | 
| punishing | /xx | Adjective, Adjective, Noun | 
| catchy | /x | Noun, Adjective | 
| stubborn | /x | Adjective, Adjective, Noun | 
| petrified | /xx | Noun, Adjective | 
| herculean | x/xx | Adjective, Adjective | 
| ticklish | /xx | Adjective, Adjective | 
| ambitious | x/x | Adjective, Adjective | 
| problematical | xx/xx | Adjective, Adjective | 
| shrewd | / | Adjective, Adjective | 
| scheming | /x | Adjective, Adjective, Noun | 
| nasty | /x | Noun, Adjective, Noun | 
| conniving | x/x | Noun, Adjective | 
| knotty | /x | Adjective, Adjective | 
| stony | /x | Adjective, Noun, Adjective | 
| steely | /x | Adjective, Adjective, Noun | 
| bad | / | Noun, Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb | 
| woody | /x | Verb, Noun, Adjective | 
| unkind | x/ | Adjective, Adjective | 
| petrous | xx | Adjective, Adjective | 
| unenviable | x/xxx | Adjective, Adjective | 
| knockout | /x | Adjective, Noun, Adjective | 
| alcoholic | xx/x | Adjective, Adjective, Noun | 
| stale | / | Noun, Adjective, Noun, Verb | 
| calculative | /xxx | Verb, Adjective | 
| horny | /x | Adjective, Adjective | 
| ossified | /xx | Adjective, Adjective | 
| fermented | x/x | Adjective, Adjective | 
| velar | x/ | Adjective, Adjective, Noun | 
| easy | /x | Adjective, Adjective | 
| soft | / | Adjective, Adjective | 
| lightly | /x | Verb, Adverb | 
| impossible | x/xx | Adjective | 
| good | / | Adjective | 
| really | /x | Adverb | 
| struggled | /x | Verb | 
| important | x/x | Adjective | 
| unable | x/x | Adjective | 
| quite | / | Adverb | 
| pretty | /x | Adjective | 
| tiring | /x | Noun | 
| often | /x | Adverb | 
| frustrating | /xx | Adjective | 
| enough | x/ | Adjective | 
| tempting | /x | Adjective | 
| hardly | /x | Adverb | 
| painfully | /xx | Adverb | 
| cannot | /x | Adjective | 
| especially | x/x | Adverb | 
| sometimes | x/ | Adverb | 
| impossibly | x/xx | Adverb | 
| cant | / | Noun | 
| nice | / | Adjective | 
| awfully | /x | Adverb | 
| long | / | Adjective | 
| able | /x | Adjective | 
| worthwhile | // | Adjective | 
| fairly | /x | Adverb | 
| still | / | Adverb | 
| relentlessly | x/xx | Adverb | 
| tuff | / | Noun | 
| worked | / | Verb | 
| just | / | Adverb | 
| extremely | x/x | Adverb | 
| easily | /xx | Adverb | 
| darn | / | Adjective | 
| incredibly | x/xx | Adverb | 
| crucial | /x | Adjective | 
| going | /x | Verb | 
| intensely | x/x | Adverb | 
| attempting | x/x | Verb | 
| necessary | /xxx | Adjective | 
| mightily | /xx | Adverb | 
| very | /x | Adverb | 
| particularly | x/xxx | Adverb | 
| reasonably | /xxx | Adverb | 
| rarely | /x | Adverb | 
| slow | / | Adjective | 
| even | /x | Adverb | 
| perfect | x/ | Adjective | 
| failing | /x | Verb | 
| crazy | /x | Adjective | 
| exhausting | x/x | Adjective | 
| fast | / | Noun | 
| futilely | /xx | Adverb | 
| terribly | /xx | Adverb | 
| ferociously | x/xx | Adverb | 
| seldom | /x | Adverb | 
| persevere | xx/ | Verb | 
| sufficiently | x/xx | Adverb | 
| hardcore | // | Noun | 
| rigid | /x | Adjective | 
| unbreakable | x/xx | Adjective | 
| pressurized | /xx | Adjective | 
| waterproof | /xx | Adjective | 
| resistant | x/x | Noun | 
| fireproof | /xx | Adjective | 
| adamant | /xx | Adjective | 
| rock solid | //x | Phrase, Adjective | 
| repellent | x/x | Noun | 
| competent | /xx | Adjective | 
| proof | / | Noun | 
| industrious | x/xx | Adjective | 
| durable | /xx | Adjective | 
| bop | / | Noun | 
| knocks | / | Noun | 
| slog | / | Noun | 
| sell | / | Noun | 
| won | / | Noun | 
| taskmaster | /xx | Noun | 
| put | / | Noun | 
| candy | /x | Noun | 
| disk | / | Noun | 
| cider | /x | Noun | 
| palates | /x | Noun | 
| braked | / | Verb | 
| marching | /x | Noun | 
| drive | / | Noun | 
| slapped | / | Verb | 
| exudates | x/x | Noun | 
| strived | / | Verb | 
| clenching | /x | Verb | 
| liquor | /x | Noun | 
| lobbied | /x | Verb | 
| spanked | / | Verb | 
| substrata | //x | Noun | 
| slammed | / | Verb | 
| riding | /x | Noun | 
| whacked | / | Verb | 
| bargain | /x | Noun | 
| rained | / | Verb | 
| swallowed | /x | Verb | 
| stomped | / | Verb | 
| nut | / | Noun | 
| biscuit | /x | Noun | 
| rammed | / | Verb | 
| shove | / | Noun | 
| jabbed | / | Verb | 
| hit | / | Adverb, Noun, Verb | 
| tremendously | x/xx | Adverb | 
| devilishly | /xxx | Adverb | 
| squeezes | /x | Verb | 
| thumped | / | Verb | 
| frost | / | Noun | 
| maple | /x | Noun | 
| laughing | /x | Verb | 
| bit | / | Verb | 
| snowing | /x | Verb | 
| punched | / | Verb | 
| fight | / | Adverb | 
| unbelievably | xx/xx | Adverb | 
| doubly | /x | Adverb | 
| paddle | /x | Verb | 
| solder | /x | Noun | 
| push | / | Adverb | 
| concentrating | /xxx | Verb | 
| desperately | /xxx | Adverb | 
| toil | / | Verb | 
| cheeses | /x | Noun | 
| acacia | x/x | Noun | 
| accurate | /xx | Adjective | 
| active | /x | Adjective, Noun | 
| acutely | x/x | Adverb | 
| adversely | x/x | Adverb | 
| affected | x/x | Adjective, Noun | 
| aggressively | x/xx | Adverb | 
| ankara | /xx | Name | 
| ardently | /xx | Adverb | 
| assiduous | x/x | Adjective | 
| avid | /x | Adjective | 
| badass | /x | Noun, Adjective | 
| badly | /x | Adverb, Adjective | 
| band | / | Noun, Verb | 
| big | / | Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb | 
| binding | /x | Noun, Adjective | 
| bitter | /x | Adjective, Noun, Verb | 
| blunt | / | Adjective, Name, Verb | 
| brick | / | Noun, Adjective, Verb | 
| brute | / | Noun, Adjective, Verb | 
| bully | /x | Noun, Verb, Adjective | 
| bummer | /x | Noun | 
| burdensome | /xx | Adjective | 
| burnt | / | Adjective | 
| busy | /x | Adjective, Verb, Noun | 
| callous | /x | Adjective, Noun, Verb | 
| carefully | /xx | Adverb | 
| ceaselessly | /xx | Adverb | 
| cheap | / | Adjective, Noun, Verb, Adverb | 
| closely | /x | Adverb | 
| coarse | / | Adjective | 
| coercive | x/x | Adjective | 
| cold | / | Adjective, Noun, Adverb | 
| commitment | x/x | Noun | 
| committed | x/x | Adjective | 
| complex | /x | Adjective, Noun, Verb | 
| complicated | /xxx | Adjective | 
| compulsory | x/xx | Adjective, Noun | 
| conclusive | x/x | Adjective | 
| concrete | x/ | Adjective, Noun, Verb | 
| conscientiously | xx/xx | Adverb | 
| considerable | x/xxx | Adjective, Noun | 
| convertible | x/xx | Adjective, Noun | 
| convincing | x/x | Adjective, Noun | 
| costly | /x | Adjective | 
| cumbersome | /xx | Adjective | 
| damning | /x | Adjective, Noun | 
| daunting | /x | Adjective, Noun | 
| dedicated | /xxx | Adjective | 
| deeply | /x | Adverb | 
| demanding | x/x | Adjective | 
| difficile | /xx | Adjective | 
| difficulties | /xxx | Noun | 
| diligent | /xx | Adjective | 
| dire | / | Adjective, Noun | 
| disc | / | Noun, Verb | 
| distressing | x/x | Adjective | 
| doggedly | /xx | Adverb | 
| draconian | x/xx | Adjective | 
| dry | / | Adjective, Noun, Verb | 
| dur | x | Noun, Adjective | 
| dura | /x | Noun | 
| duro | /x | Name | 
| durum | /x | Noun | 
| earnest | /x | Noun, Adjective, Verb | 
| effort | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| elusive | x/x | Adjective | 
| endeavour | x/x | Noun, Verb | 
| energetically | xx/xx | Adverb | 
| enormous | x/x | Adjective | 
| evil | /x | Adjective, Noun, Adverb | 
| exacting | x/x | Adjective | 
| excellent | /xx | Adjective, Adverb | 
| expensive | x/x | Adjective | 
| extensive | x/x | Adjective | 
| factual | /xx | Adjective, Noun | 
| far | / | Adverb, Adjective, Verb, Noun | 
| fervently | /xx | Adverb | 
| fierce | / | Adjective, Adverb | 
| fine | / | Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb | 
| fixed | / | Adjective | 
| fond | / | Verb, Noun, Adjective | 
| forced | / | Adjective | 
| forceful | /x | Adjective | 
| forcible | /xx | Adjective | 
| format | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| formidable | /xxx | Adjective | 
| fort | / | Noun, Verb | 
| fortress | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| furiously | /xxx | Adverb | 
| fussy | /x | Adjective, Noun | 
| glassy | /x | Adjective, Noun | 
| gothic | /x | Adjective, Name | 
| grave | / | Noun, Adjective, Verb | 
| great | / | Adjective, Noun, Adverb | 
| greatly | /x | Adverb | 
| grim | / | Adjective, Verb, Noun | 
| gritty | /x | Adjective | 
| hardball | /x | Noun, Adjective, Verb | 
| hardness | /x | Noun | 
| hardship | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| hardware | /x | Noun | 
| hardwood | /x | Noun, Adjective | 
| hardworking | /xx | Adjective | 
| harm | / | Noun, Verb | 
| harte | / | Name | 
| hawkish | /x | Adjective | 
| heartbreaking | /xx | Noun, Adjective | 
| heartily | /xx | Adverb | 
| heartless | /x | Adjective | 
| hectic | /x | Adjective, Noun | 
| herd | / | Noun, Verb | 
| high | / | Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb | 
| highly | /x | Adverb | 
| hot | / | Adjective, Adverb, Verb, Noun | 
| huge | / | Adjective | 
| hurt | / | Verb, Noun, Adjective | 
| gloss | / | Noun, Verb | 
| bulletproof | /xx | Adjective, Verb | 
| die | / | Verb, Noun | 
| backwater | /xx | Noun, Verb | 
| daylight | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| fall | / | Verb, Noun | 
| blow | / | Noun, Verb, Adjective | 
| stonewall | /x | Name, Verb, Adjective | 
| off | / | Adverb, Adjective, Verb, Noun | 
| milestone | /x | Noun, Verb | 
