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rye, a sort of grain; wry, crooked. Paste is made of rye flour. Children make wry faces when they eat sour grapes.
ring, to sound, a circle; wring, to twist. Some ladies are fond of gold rings. The bell rings for church. Washerwomen wring clothes.
rite, ceremony; right, just. Baptism is a rite of the Christian church. It is not right to pilfer.
write, to make letters with a pen; wright, a workman. Wheelwrights make carts and wagons.
rode, did ride; road, the highway. Cumberland road leads from Baltimore to Wheeling. King David rode upon a mule.
rear, to raise; rear, the hind part.
rig-ger, one who rigs vessels; rig-or, severity. Riggers rig vessels; that is, fit the shrouds, stays, braces, etc., to the masts and yards. Hannibal crossed the Alps in the rigor of winter.
ruff, a neck-cloth; rough, not smooth.
rote, repetition of words; wrote, did write. Children often learn the alphabet by rote before they know the letters. Oliver Goldsmith wrote several good histories.
roe, a female deer; row, a rank. A roe deer has no horns. Corn is planted in rows. Oarsmen row boats with oars.
roar, to sound loudly; row-er, one who rows.
rab-bet, to cut, as the edge of a board, in a sloping manner; rab-bit, an
animal. The joiner rabbets boards. Rabbits are lively animals.
sail, the canvas of a ship; sale, the act of selling. This house is for sale. We
sail for Liverpool to-morrow.
sea, a large body of water; see, to behold. The river Danube runs into the
Black Sea. Owls cannot see well when the sun shines.
sa-ver, one who saves, sa-vor, taste or odor.
seen, beheld; scene, part of a play; seine, a fish net. We have never seen a more dazzling object than the sun in summer. A thunderstorm is a sublime scene. Fishermen catch shad in seines. The city of Paris stands on the river Seine.
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