Choose the word that has a different stress pattern.
Adevelop
Bremember
Cconsider
DengineerCORRECT
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Why the answer is D, and why the others tempt you.
'Engineer' takes primary stress on the third syllable (en-gi-NEER). The others stress the second syllable (de-VE-lop, re-MEM-ber, con-SI-der).
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