The words among the answer choices that have a silent "h" are "exhausted," "exhilarate," "rheumatism," "rhyme," and "shepherd," as explained below.
What is a silent "h"?
Some words are spelled with letter that do not really represent a sound. That usually happens because the pronunciation of such words has changed with time.
Compare the word "house" with "hour", for example. In "house," the letter "h" has a sound, but in "hour" it is silent.
With the information above in mind, we can select the words "exhausted," "exhilarate," "rheumatism," "rhyme," and "shepherd" as having a silent "h".
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