Please help me write all the words correctly

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Here's a link to the audio file I need to write a script for:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2Pnm8MU_-nRUU9VQWhBeHNOdTg/edit?usp=sharing

I need to write all the words correctly. I have written most of them, could you please check and complete the list:

1. moor
2. mewer
3. poor
4. pure
5. sure
6. sewer
7. toured
8. steward
9. more
10. mewer
11. pour
12. pure
13. shore
14. ...???
15. ...???
16. ....???
 
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The last three are repeats:
14 sewer
15 toured
16 steward

2 sounded like the name Muir to me.
 

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Is "mewer" meant to refer to "one who mews" (ie a cat)?
 

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I myself was puzzled. :-? I found one entry for mewer in a dictionary where it was described like that. Then I thought there might be some other word with the same pronunciation. Does the name Muir sound differently from mewer?

Anyway, for this particular exercise the meaning of the word is not important at all as long as the word exists. It aims at practicing the pronunciation of particular sounds.
 

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For me, Muir is like pure and mewer like sewer.
 

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I agree with "Muir" and "pure". However, if "mewer" means "one who mews", then I would say "mew - er". I pronounce "sewer" as either "soo - er" (the pipes where the sewage goes) or "so - er" (one who sews). I know that some people pronounce "sewer" as "ss-you-er". I am not one of those people.
 

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I am one of those people. ;-)
 

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For me, Muir is like pure and mewer like sewer.

In other words, the pronunciation is the same? Muir=pure=sewer=mewer?
 

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For me, yes, though I have never used the word mewer.
 
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