Readiness has 3 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
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| 1. | It is correct to say that psychological readiness is important in this therapy. | |
| 2. | A number of students announced their readiness to engage in the contest. | |
| 3. | We were more than satisfied when the Romanian Government, even before its membership in the European Union, showed its readiness to accept this directive. | |
| 4. | Now therefore let the king provide a wise and industrious man, and make him ruler over the land of Egypt. That he may appoint overseers over all the countries: and gather into barns the fifth part of the fruits, during the seven fruitful years, that shall now presently ensue: and let all the corn be laid up, under Pharaoh's hands, and be reserved in the cities. And let it be in readiness, against the famine of seven years to come, which shall oppress Egypt, and the land shall not be consumed with scarcity. | |
| 5. | If I bow before the authority of the specialists and avow my readiness to follow, to a certain extent and as long as may seem to me necessary, their indications and even their directions, it is because their authority is imposed upon me by no one, neither by men nor by God. Otherwise I would repel them with horror, and bid the devil take their counsels, their directions, and their services, certain that they would make me pay, by the loss of my liberty and self-respect, for such scraps of truth, wrapped in a multitude of lies, as they might give me. |