Acute: female term that can be interpreted as ' sustained ' and indicating that note suffers more tuned accident, forward or upwards. Word-: term of language Spanish, whose pronunciation accentuates the last syllable; all acute words ending in a vowel ( programme - i-o-u ) in a January ( n ) or that ( s ) mark them an accent on the stressed vowel. Given that some end in diphthongs ( Union of two vowels: an open vowel and another closed closed or both ) is accentuated orthographically, registering the tilde on the indicated vowel: geography - cockatoo - country - MOM - mouse - dad.