Persecution has 4 syllables and the stress is on the third syllable.
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1. | Petitioners for asylum must prove they have a “reasonable fear” of persecution in their home country. Reasonable fear is defined by the United Nations as at least a 10 percent chance of persecution. | |
2. | Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plant Religion. | |
3. | Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution. | |
4. | Stop the persecution! | |
5. | In spite of the tyrant’s persecution, the hero valiantly carried on the struggle. | |
6. | The Pilgrims came to America, fleeing religious persecution. | |
7. | Tom suffers from a persecution complex. | |
8. | We can learn a lot about an historical event such as the persecution of the Jews and make sure that something similar does not happen again. | |
9. | Some of them were and are in constant danger due to political repression and persecution. | |
10. | Others came to escape religious persecution. |