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Here are the words you read, with the stressed vowels in bold type:

hospital

affair

police

conference

perish

In English words of more than three syllables, there is a syllable with primary stress and a syllable with secondary stress. Syllables with secondary stress are spoken with less of an increase in volume than syllables with primary stress. Read the following English words aloud and listen for the stressed syllables.

conversation

interrogation

confidential

celebrated

complicated