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miry
22 February 2025 @ 5:00 am
Definition: (adjective) (Of soil) soft and watery.
Synonyms: boggy, marshy, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged.
Usage: Right across the lower part of the bog lay a miry path.
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commutation
21 February 2025 @ 5:00 am
Definition: (noun) (Law) The reduction in severity of a punishment imposed by law.
Synonyms: re-sentencing.
Usage: The change from consecutive prison sentences to concurrent sentences is a commutation of punishment.
endocarp
20 February 2025 @ 5:00 am
Definition: (noun) The hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed.
Synonyms: pit, stone.
Usage: I bit into the prune and nearly broke my tooth on the hard endocarp inside.