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Sweltering

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized

Definitions

The situation of being or feeling hot and humid.

Equivalents

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العربيةالإحترار
Българскизноен
Catalàxafogós
Nederlandsbloedheet
Русскийзнойный
Svenskastekhet
Türkçebunaltıcı

Examples

March 11 1932, Northrop Frye, notebook It is truly a long way from Augustine's ultra-violet perspicacity to our swelterings in the intolerably sapping infra-red, but we are constantly plunging into deeper and deeper black and may rest our eyes in peace sometime.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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