Accumulate has 4 syllables and the stress is on the second syllable.
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1. | Car windows accumulate frost on winter mornings. | |
2. | We studied the Concordance to Shakespeare to accumulate examples of alliteration. | |
3. | He tried to accumulate wealth. | |
4. | We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest. | |
5. | Your impertinent attempts at national self-humilitiation have the vagary of a demented maniac, provide you with no condescension but accumulate contempt in the eyes of others and your total worthlessness is congruentially equivallent to your repugnantly low grammatic skills. | |
6. | One of the things we should learn from Americans is their ability to gather, accumulate, and impart knowledge. | |
7. | Dentists recommend changing toothbrushes every three months, because over time their bristles become worse at getting rid of plaque, and accumulate microbes. | |
8. | Interstellar, as opposed to interplanetary, travel was quite impossible until the advent of sub-atomic power. Fortunately this source of power was seldom gained until late in a world's development, when mentality was mature enough to wield this most dangerous of all physical instruments without inevitable disaster. Disasters, however, did occur. Several worlds were accidentally blown to pieces. In others civilization was temporarily destroyed. Sooner or later, however, most of the minded worlds tamed this formidable djin, and set it to work upon a titanic scale, not only in industry, but in such great enterprises as the alteration of planetary orbits for the improvement of climate. This dangerous and delicate process was effected by firing a gigantic sub-atomic rocket-apparatus at such times and places that the recoil would gradually accumulate to divert the planet's course in the desired direction. | |
9. | If your credit limit is too high, it's not hard to accumulate a lot of debt. | |
10. | It's common sense to keep your foreskin constantly retracted so that smegma is unable to accumulate. |