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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intrigue

/ˈɪntɹiːɡ/ noun, verb

Forms intrigues intriguing intrigued entrigue

  1. noun A complicated or clandestine plot or scheme intended to affect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem; the practice of engaging in hidden schemes. “His betrayal was the beginning of a complex intrigue intended to give him control of the company.”
  2. noun Clandestine intercourse between persons; illicit intimacy; a liaison or affair. “I suspect Suzanne and her mysterious friend of being involved in an intrigue.”
  3. noun The plot of a play, poem or romance; the series of complications in which a writer involves their imaginary characters. “The story's intrigue was boring and reminiscent of a thousand better movies.”
  4. noun A desire to understand something; interest or fascination. “Your idea has aroused my intrigue.”
  5. verb (intransitive) To conceive or carry out a secret plan intended to harm; to form a plot or scheme.
  6. verb (transitive) To arouse the interest of; to fascinate.
  7. verb (intransitive) To have clandestine or illicit intercourse.
  8. verb (transitive) To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate.

Synonyms

machination fascinate scheme connive

Etymology

Borrowed from French intrigue, from Italian intricare, from Latin intrīcō (“to entangle, perplex, embarrass”). Doublet of intricate.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To form a plot or scheme; to contrive to accomplish a purpose by secret artifice.
  2. verb To carry on a secret and illicit love or amour.
  3. verb To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate; to embarrass. [Obs.]
  4. noun Intricacy; complication. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

Etymology [F. intriguer, OF. intriquer, entriquer; cf. It. intrigare. See Intricate, Extricate.]

Etymology [Cf. F. intrique. See Intrigue, v. i.]

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

Sanskrit

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