How to pronounce “despair”(verb) in English

grandstanding, god-forsaken, posturing, restless, cow-tipping, homesick, cloistered, claustrophobic, sensory-deprived, under-oxygenated, fed up, talked out, overheated delegates so distraughtand despairing they threatened violence, secession, foreign allegiance and even prayer.As Benjamin Franklin said, "and concluded for those who didn't abandon the proceedings altogether, with as much pre-meditation and forethought as a game of musical chairs.