Say the word out loud. Whatever syllable you emphasize more is the stressed (or accent) syllable. The first syllable in engine is stressed.
accent on first syllable
The accent is on the first syllable (KAN-suhl).
"Monster" is a first-syllable accent word, as the stress is on the first syllable "mon."
Cancel is a first syllable word.
Cancel is accented on the first syllable.
The accent syllable in "neuralgia" is on the second syllable: neu-RAL-gia.
The accent is on the first syllable in the word "compound."
The accent is on the first syllable
The accent is on the second syllable: ful fill'
Synthetic is accented on the second syllable.
The word child only has one syllable. This means the whole word is the syllable and so there isn't a specific accented syllable.
The accent is on the second syllable.