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.

roleplay

UK /ˈrəʊl.pleɪ/ · US /ˈroʊl.pleɪ/ verb, noun

Forms roleplays roleplaying roleplayed role play role-play

verb (intransitive) To act out a scenario or fantasy with another person or other people. “To spice up their sex life, they like to roleplay.”
verb (transitive) To act as a character as part of a fantasy, especially with a group. “He likes to roleplay a vampire.”
verb (transitive, intransitive) To act out a social role, especially one that one does not truly belong to. “He talks like he's some scrappy bootstrap entrepreneur but he's just some old money rich kid roleplaying.”
noun The act or practice of roleplaying; an instance of roleplaying.
noun The practice of roleplaying.
verb Dated spelling of roleplay.

Synonyms

From role (“expected behavior”) + play (“perform, act”).

From rôle + play.

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