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The rhymes in this section have the ‘oor’ sound of cure and purely as their main or final vowel sound. Many of these words can also be rhymed with words in the – or – section.

27.1 Boer, boor, cure, dour, lure, moor, Moor, Moore, Muir, poor, pure, Ruhr, spoor, sure, tour, Tours, Ure, your, you’re, * velour, McClure, procure, gravure, allure, manure, amour, unmoor, assure, unsure, mature, adjure, abjure, conjure, tandoor, Latour, Cavour, coiffure, Namur, hachure, Kanpur, Darfur, guipure, impure, liqueur, secure, endure, immure, demure, inure, ensure, insure, obscure, couture, du jour, * tambour, grandeur, Dartmoor, tenure, Exmoor, Sedgemoor, detour, Tweedsmuir, concours, Goncourt, contour, cocksure, tonsure, ordure, Broadmoor, Hawksmoor, brochure, * Aznavour, amateur, aperture, Lammermuir, paramour, Jamshedpur, manicure, plat du jour, armature, Réaumur, premature, epicure, pedicure, sepulture, curvature, reassure, prefecture, reinsure, ligature, immature, sinecure, insecure, cynosure, Pompadour, Yom Kippur, confiture, commissure, embouchure, hors concours, overture, Côte d’Azur, Kohinoor, haute couture, troubadour, * caricature, magistrature, photogravure, musculature, underinsure

How small, of all that human hearts endure,

That part which laws or kings can cause or cure!

OLIVER GOLDSMITH

27.2 cured, gourd, Lourdes, lured, moored, * procured, manured, unmoored, assured, matured, coiffured, secured, immured, inured, insured, obscured, * manicured, self-assured, reassured, reinsured, unsecured, uninsured, * caricatured, underinsured, etc.

27.3 Boers, boors, cures, lures, moors, tours, yours, * matures, allures, amours, Elburz, liqueurs, endures, etc.

28.1 dourly, Gourlay, poorly, purely, surely, curie, Curie, Drury, fury, houri, Jewry, jury, Lurie, Newry, Uri, * Kalgoorlie, securely, demurely, obscurely, tandoori, Venturi, Mercouri, Missouri, potpourri, * prematurely, Dioscuri, etc.

28.2 curer, Dürer, Führer, Jura, juror, lurer, pleura, poorer, purer, surer, tourer, * assurer, procurer, bravura, insurer, securer, caesura, nonjuror, * Angostura, El Mansûra, tessitura, * acciaccatura, appoggiatura, * coloratura, Bonaventura, * camera obscura, * cure her, lure her, etc.

28.3 uric, Zürich, * telluric, mercuric, sulphuric

28.4 mural, neural, pleural, plural, rural, Ural, * extramural, epidural

28.5 Purim, Urim

28.6 Van Buren, Honduran

28.7 burin, urine, * moorin’, allurin’, etc.

28.8 moorland, gourmand

28.9 procurement, allurement

28.10 durance, * assurance, insurance, endurance, * self-assurance, reassurance

28.11 curing, during, luring, mooring, touring, Turing, * procuring, alluring, assuring, maturing, securing, enduring, ensuring, insuring, obscuring, * manicuring, reassuring, * caricaturing, underinsuring, etc.

28.12 poorness, sureness, Arcturus, mercurous, Honduras, sulphurous, * Epicurus, * lure us, assure us, etc.

28.13 poorest, purest, surest, * securest, etc.

28.14 jurist, purist, tourist, * manicurist, pedicurist, * caricaturist

28.15 boorish, Moorish, * amateurish

28.16 Curies, Furies, juries

28.17 gourami, curacy, purity, surety, touristy, urinary, pleurisy, * incurably, maturity, impurity, security, obscurity, futurity, assuredly, * immaturity, insecurity, reassuringly, etc.

28.18 curia, * Manchuria, Etruria, Liguria, dysuria, * haematuria, glycosuria, etc.

28.19 curable, durable, thurible, Muriel, * procurable, insurable, incurable, endurable, Escurial, centurial, tenurial, mercurial, * uninsurable, unendurable

28.20 curium, * tellurium

28.21 puritan, juryman, * Manchurian, Arthurian, Ben-Gurion, tellurian, centurion, Etrurian, Ligurian, Missourian, Silurian, * Khachaturian, holothurian

28.22 prurient, * parturient, esurient, luxuriant

28.23 prurience, * luxuriance

28.24 curious, furious, spurious, * penurious, perjurious, incurious, injurious, sulphureous, luxurious, usurious