Word of the day: Dapple

Dapple: salpico, mancha, pinta no pelo de um animal, manchado, malhado, salpicado, cavalo ou outro animal rajado, mesclado, salpicar com pinta

Synonyms: blotch, spot, dot, eyespot, fleck, mottle, patch, pip, point, speck, speckle, splotch

”The clouds threw dapples of shadow over the eerily quiet street.”

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Word of the day: Blight

Blight: ferrugem, mangra, qualquer doença que faz secar as plantas,  inseto ou pulgão que causa tal doença, influência maligna, algo que frustra, atrapalha,fazer secar ,arruinar

Synonyms: blemish, blotch, defect, deformity, disfigurement, excrescence, excrescency, fault, flaw, imperfection, mar, mark, pockmark, scar

“…the city's spreading urban blight…”

‘The expanding urban sprawl is a blight on the countryside.”

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