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REA

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Rural Electrification Administration.

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Words nearby REA

r-dropping, RDS, RDT&E, RDX, re, REA, reach, reach for the sky, reaching jib, reach-me-down, reach rod

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How to use REA in a sentence

Rea was paying $4 a month for lodging in two rooms of a tenement-house with a man and his wife and baby and little boy.
Making Both Ends Meet|Sue Ainslie Clark and Edith Wyatt
The groanings were heard, they say, 'when all wyndes are whiste and the rea restes unmoved as a standing poole.'
Yorkshire Painted And Described|Gordon Home
Throughout this long poem, John Rea's warmth much exceeds that of the most romantic lovers.
On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening,|Samuel Felton
Rea′soner; Rea′soning, act of reasoning: that which is offered in argument: course of argument.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R)|Various

Consul answered that much is possible to the devil, and that they would have to answer for it should Rea escape.
The Amber Witch|Wilhelm Meinhold