The Oxford Thesaurus An A-Z Dictionary of Synonyms - accentn.

1) emphasis, stress, force, prominence, accentuation; intensity, inflection; cadence, beat: The accent is on the second syllable in 'reward'. 2) diacritic, diacritical mark, mark, accent mark: There is an acute accent on the 'e' in 'clich‚'. 3) pronunciation, articulation, intonation, speech pattern, inflection: Even after forty years in the country, he still speaks English with an Italian accent. --v. 4) accentuate, emphasize, stress, give prominence to, mark, underline, underscore, distinguish, highlight, set off or apart: In her speech, the psychologist accented the 'id' in 'idiot'. Why must he always accent the negative aspect of everything?