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spoor

noun/spʊə/

C2CEFR level
82/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

The track or scent trail left by a wild animal.

The guide crouched to read the fresh spoor of a leopard pressed into the riverbank mud.

Similar: track, trail

Origin: from Afrikaans/Dutch spoor 'track'

Topic: tracking 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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