Hereditary has 5 syllables and the stress is on the second syllable.
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1. | My baby has a hereditary disease. | |
2. | My son has an hereditary disease. | |
3. | Her face is really swollen, but she says that it isn't the mumps. Apparently, it's some unknown hereditary disease. | |
4. | The disease we are talking about is hereditary. | |
5. | Fascism is the hereditary enemy of every thought, whatever that thought may be. | |
6. | One perched, Celaeno, on a rock, and lo, / thus croaked the dismal seer her prophecy of woe. / "War, too, Laomedon's twice-perjured race! / War do ye bring, our cattle stol'n and slain? / And unoffending Harpies would ye chase / forth from their old, hereditary reign?" | |
7. | But the man had hereditary tendencies of the most diabolical kind. A criminal strain ran in his blood, which, instead of being modified, was increased and rendered infinitely more dangerous by his extraordinary mental powers. | |
8. | In later stages of pregnancy, blood can be taken from the umbilical cord to test for a range of hereditary conditions. | |
9. | Cousin marriage increases the risk of hereditary disease. |