Synonyms:
emphasizing, accenting, accentuation
Meaning: the act of giving special importance or significance to something
Usage examples
Read the selections on pages 30 and 48, emphasizing every word.
Strongly emphasizing a single word has a tendency to suggest its antithesis.
When a great battle is reported in the papers, they do not keep emphasizing the same facts over and over again.
Read some sentence repeatedly, emphasizing a different word each time, and show how the meaning is changed, as is done on page 22.
Read the selections on pages 50, 51, 52, 53 and 54, devoting special attention to emphasizing the important words or phrases and subordinating the unimportant ones.