Dappled

A tree-lined and sun-dappled street.
Wouldn’t you like to drive down this street?

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Word of the Day: Dappled

Dappled is a lovely little adjective that you can use to describe something covered with light and dark spots. 

For example, in the accompanying picture, you can see the sunlight shining through the trees onto the road. 


Dappled is used to describe something covered with light and dark spots. The road is dappled with sunshine shining through the trees.


We could describe the scene by saying: The road is covered in spots of sunshine. 

If you want to add a new word to your vocabulary repertoire, the next time you walk along a tree-lined street, you can say: The road is dappled with sunshine. 


Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test

This post is understandable by someone with at least a 7th-grade education (age 12).   

On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 71.   

The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100. 



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