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Spoor N Track Scent Animal I Sniffed Strange

Word spoor
Definition n. The track or scent of an animal.
Sentence I have sniffed out a strange discontent in Padma, exuding its enigmatic spoor from her eccrine (or apocrine) glands.
Source Midnight's Children, p. 153

Tags: language::english, topic::vocabulary

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