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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agitate

/ˈæ.d͡ʒɪ.teɪt/ verb

Forms agitates agitating agitated

  1. verb (transitive) To disturb or excite; to perturb or stir up (a person). “He was greatly agitated by the news.”
  2. verb (transitive) To cause to move with a violent, irregular action; to shake. “to agitate water in a vessel”
  3. verb To participate in political agitation (sense 3).
  4. verb (transitive, obsolete) To set in motion; to actuate.
  5. verb (transitive, now rare) To discuss or debate.
  6. verb (transitive, now rare) To mull over, or think deeply about; to consider, to devise. “Politicians agitate desperate designs.”

Synonyms

disturb unsettle freak sting bother bring down discompose unstring disconcert enturbulate mortify perturb put out ruffle throw off balance upset flurry move muddle roil foment stir up rouse turn on charge commove excite charge up crusade fight

Antonyms

appease calm quieten

Etymology

From Middle English agitat(e) (“set in motion”), borrowed from Latin agitātus, perfect passive participle of agitō (“to put in motion”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), frequentative of agō (“to drive, move, push”), see -tō. Cognate with French agiter. See also act and agent.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper.
  2. verb To move or actuate. [R.] Thomson.

Etymology [L. agitatus, p. p. of agitare to put in motion, fr. agere to move: cf. F. agiter. See Act, Agent.]

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

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