The syllabication of the word "genuflect" is gen-u-flect.
elementary
Resolution
revive
Knowing the syllabication of a word helps you to pronounce it correctly and spell it correctly
democracy
Stam-pede
mag.ic
fur•ni•ture
Syllabication is a break-down of how a word is pronounced, and if done correctly will even show syllables that receive strong and weak stresses.
The word "cloak" has one syllable.
A hyphen (-) is commonly used in writing to indicate syllabication, where a word is split between two lines.