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rudiment

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8 lettersPronunciation /ˈɹuːdɪmənt/Part of speech nounSorted deimnrtuStarts with REnds with T0 clues
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Definitions

  1. the remains of a body part that was functional at an earlier stage of life

Word origin

From Old French, from Latin rudimentum (“a first attempt, a beginning”), plural rudimenta (“the elements”), from rudis (“rude”); see rude. By surface analysis, rude + -i- + -ment.

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  • We'll be learning the rudiments of thermodynamics next week.
  • This boy is forest-born, / And hath been tutored in the rudiments / Of many desperate studies.
  • The very emphasis on reading readiness and on the methods employed to teach children the rudiments of reading has meant that the other, the higher, levels of reading have tended to be slighted.

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