Select the correct answer from each drop-down menu. Read John Gould Fletcher’s poem “‘Bus-Top”:

Black shapes bending,
Taxicabs crush in the crowd.
The tops are each a shining square
Shuttles that steadily press through woolly fabric.

Drooping blossom,
Gas-standards over
Spray out jingling tumult
Of white-hot rays.

Monotonous domes of bowler-hats
Vibrate in the heat.

Silently, easily we sway through braying traffic,
Down the crowded street.
The tumult crouches over us,
Or suddenly drifts to one side.

Listen to the thesaurus audio pronunciation for the word tumult .

The word tumult has
syllables. The first u in the word sounds like
. The second u sounds like
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Look at this dictionary pronunciation respelling for the word monotonous:

\mə-ˈnä-tə-nəs\.

The word monotonous has
syllables. The first and third o in the word sound like
. The second o sounds like
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