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tergiversation

How many syllables in tergiversation?

  5 syllables

Divide tergiversation into syllables:   ter-gi-ver-sa-tion
Primary syllable stress:   ter-gi-ver-sa-tion
Secondary syllable stress:   ter-gi-ver-sa-tion
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