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"bestiary" has 2 syllables: best-iary. It rhymes with vestiary, if that helps it stick.
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Practicing rhymes trains the same ending sounds.
"Bestiary" has 2 syllables: best · iary.
Bestiary: A medieval treatise of various real or imaginary animals.
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