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R:UTAH-Entry 16 on a multiplechoice geography test wofahulicodoc 07/24/24 04:54 PM
RUTH

PRONUNCIATION: (rooth)

MEANING: noun:
1. Compassion.
2. Contrition.

ETYMOLOGY: From Middle English ruthe, from ruen (to rue). Earliest documented use: 1200. The common affixed form is ruthless.
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RITH - one of the three Rs, according to modern "shorthand" parlance 9cf "rents" for parents and "shrooms" for mushrooms)

DRUTH - if you had yours you'd prefer comparatively more than one of them

WRUTH - what God did when he invented the telegraph (sorta) according to the first message ever sent, in 1884 opening the Baltimore–Washington line
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Let us pray A C Bowden 06/28/24 03:24 PM
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T > M

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