This week’s theme
Words one letter apart

This week’s words
mucid
lucid
sallow
fallow
incubus

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(FAL-oh)

MEANING:

adj.:	1. Inactive or unproductive.
	2. (Of land) left to lie idle for a season, sometimes after plowing.
noun:	1. Land left to lie idle to restore its fertility.
	2. The act of plowing land and leaving it unseeded.
verb tr.:	To leave unseeded.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Old English fealh (fallow land). Earliest documented use: before 1150.

USAGE:

“[Y]ou were in a professionally fallow period, where you weren’t creatively getting to do the things that you wanted to do. What did you learn about yourself in that period?”
Lulu Garcia-Navarro; 7 Questions With ... Reese Witherspoon; Sydney Morning Herald (Australia); Oct 11, 2025.

See more usage examples of fallow in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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