Spasmodic has 3 syllables and the stress is on the second syllable.
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| 1. | Dorothea darted instantaneously from the window; Will followed her, seizing her hand with a spasmodic movement; and so they stood, with their hands clasped, like two children, looking out on the storm, while the thunder gave a tremendous crack and roll above them, and the rain began to pour down. | |
| 2. | The conversation had roamed in a desultory spasmodic fashion from golf clubs to the causes of the change in the obliquity of the ecliptic. | |
| 3. | “That,” said a very young man, making spasmodic efforts to relight his cigar over the lamp; “that . . . very clear indeed.” |