JAMB - English Language (2000 - No. 11)

Select the word that has the same pattern of stress as the given word.

Education

duplicity

economics

elaborate

conjectural

Education - e-du-CA-tion

A. Duplicity - du-PLI-ci-ty

B. Economics - e-co-NO-mics

C. Elaborate - E-LA-bo-rate

D. Conjectural - con-JEC-tu-ral

Both education and economics have stress in the third syllable.