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Analyze the foot of the following word. Use a dictionary if necessary.

razor
iambic
trochaic

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Razor is a trochaic word because its accented syllable is "ra" and not "zor". That means that the word is accented-unaccented and that means that it is a trochaic word. Iambic would mean the opposite.
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