accent

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English

Noun

accent (plural accents)

1. To scale or raise oneself above a rough phonetic obstacle.
2. The improper way your language is pronounced by somebody who comes from a different region than yourself.

Example

• "But in order to get there, I had to accent some steep glottal stops lined with jagged fricatives."