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Pronunciation Word of the Day



incestuous

Listen [ɪnsɛsʧuəs]

Pronunciation Tips:

  • Pronounce this word as four syllables, stressing the second one, [s ɛ s] .
  • Pronounce the letter "t" as /ʧ/ Listen making the third syllable sound like the word "chew."
  • Use the consonant glide /w/ Listen to link from the third to the fourth syllable—from /u/ Listen to [əs].

Practice Sentence:

Listen It was rumored that the father and daughter had an incestuous relationship.

Definition:

  • (adjective) Having to do with sexual relationships between persons from the same family, who are forbidden by law to marry each other.

Note:

  • Hamlet, commenting on his mother's marrying his uncle so soon after his father's death says:
    Listen "O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason
    Would have mourned longer—married with my uncle,
    My father's brother, but no more like my father
    Than I to Hercules. Within a month,
    Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears
    Had left the flushing of her gallèd eyes,
    She married. O, most wicked speed, to post
    With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!
    It is not, nor it cannot come to good."
    Hamlet, Act I, scene ii, lines 150-158 William Shakespeare (1600)

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