Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iː	see	ɪ	sit	e / ɛ	bed	æ	cat
ɑː	father	ɒ	hot (UK)	ɔː	law	ʊ	put
uː	too	ʌ	cup	ɜː	bird	ə	about
eɪ	day	aɪ	my	ɔɪ	boy	aʊ	now
əʊ / oʊ	go (UK / US)	ɪə	near	eə	hair	ʊə	tour

Consonants that look unusual

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.

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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reject

/ɹɪˈd͡ʒɛkt/ verb, noun

Forms rejects rejecting rejected

verb (transitive) To refuse to accept; to forswear. “She even rejected my improved offer.”
verb (basketball) To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.
verb (transitive) To refuse a romantic advance. “I've been rejected three times this week.”
noun Something that is rejected.
noun (derogatory, slang) An unpopular person.
noun (colloquial) A rejected defective product in a production line.
noun (aviation) A rejected takeoff.

Synonyms

abjure abnegate decline deny disown refuse repudiate say no turn down dismiss discount castaway outcast alien RTO cull pass up disapprove spurn freeze off scorn pooh-pooh disdain resist turn away rule out eliminate winnow out

Antonyms

accept take up admit

Etymology

From Late Middle English rejecten, from Latin reiectus, past participle of reicere (“to throw back”), from re- (“back”) + iacere (“to throw”). Displaced native Old English āweorpan (literally “to throw out”).

Webster’s 1913

verb To cast from one; to throw away; to discard.
verb To refuse to receive or to acknowledge; to decline haughtily or harshly; to repudiate.

Etymology [L. rejectus, p. p. of reicere, rejicere; pref. re- re- + jacere to throw: cf. F. rejeter, formerly also spelt rejecter. See Jet a shooting forth.]

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

Sanskrit

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

अपाहा apā-hā -jahāti, hātum, to leave, omit, reject.
अभ्यवमन् abhy-ava-man -manyate, -mantum, to despise, scorn, reject.
पराकृ parā-kṛ -karoti, -kartum, to set aside, reject, disregard.
प्रत्यनुज्ञा praty-anu-jñā -jānāti, jānīte, -jñātum, to disallow, refuse, reject; to spurn.
प्रत्याचक्ष् praty-ā-cakṣ -caṣṭe, -caṣṭum, to refuse, decline, reject; to repulse; to answer.
प्रतिक्षिप् prati-kṣip -kṣipati, -kṣeptum, to throw or cast into; to push against, hurt; to revile, ridicule, reject.
उच्छिष् uc-chiṣ -chi-naṣṭi, -cheṣṭum, to leave (as a remainder), to reject: Pass. -chiṣyate, to be left remaining.
उत्क्षिप् ut-kṣip -kṣipati, -te, -kṣeptum, to throw up, raise, set up, erect; to throw away, reject, get rid of, vomit up.

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