The Academic Word List collects the vocabulary that appears across all university disciplines, and many items are long Latin derivations where stress placement is the main hurdle. Note the singular and plural shifts: hypothesis becomes hypotheses with a different final vowel. Stress usually lands three syllables from the end.
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