Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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acrimony

UK /ˈækɹɪməni/ · US /ˈækɹɪˌmoʊni/ noun

Forms acrimonies

  1. noun A sharp and bitter hatred. “Her acrimony for her neighbors manifests itself with shouting and stomping.”

Synonyms

animosity bitterness enmity hatred opposition acerbity jaundice tartness thorniness

Antonyms

friendship peace

Etymology

From Middle French acrimonie, from Latin ācrimōnia (“sharpness, pungency”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A quality of bodies which corrodes or destroys others; also, a harsh or biting sharpness; as, the acrimony of the juices of certain plants. [Archaic] Bacon.
  2. noun Sharpness or severity, as of language or temper; irritating bitterness of disposition or manners.

Etymology [L. acrimonia, fr. acer, sharp: cf. F. acrimonie.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “acrimony”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “acrimony” (best matches first).