Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

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

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)

-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.

pull off

verb

Forms pulls off pulling off pulled off

verb (transitive) To remove by pulling. “Pull off old blossoms so that the plant will keep flowering.”
verb (transitive, idiomatic) To achieve, accomplish, succeed at (something difficult). “to pull off a heist”
verb (ambitransitive) To turn off (a road onto the side of the road, or onto another road). “(transitive) After about a mile, we pulled off the main road onto a dirt track.”
verb (intransitive, of a vehicle) To begin moving and then move away; to pull away. “As the police approached, the car pulled off and sped away into the distance.”
verb (transitive, reflexive, vulgar, slang, usually of a male) To masturbate manually.

Synonyms

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “pull off”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details