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flit

verb/flɪt/

B2CEFR level
35/100Rarity: fairly common
NeutralRegister

To move swiftly and lightly from one place to another.

A swallow flitted between the rafters of the old barn.

Similar: dart, flutter, skim

Origin: Middle English, from Old Norse 'flytja', to carry.

Topic: light movement in General English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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