Retaliation has 5 syllables and the stress is on the fourth syllable.
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1. | Threats of retaliation are blocking negotiations. | |
2. | This has allowed snow leopards to hunt markhor instead of descending to relatively low altitude villages to attack precious livestock and being killed in retaliation by angry villagers. | |
3. | While many snow leopards die at the hands of poachers and the illegal trade, more than half are killed in retaliation for attacks on local herders’ livestock. | |
4. | Whistleblowers alleged numerous cases of gross mismanagement, retaliation and investigations into staff that had a debilitating effect. |