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Bayou

/bˈaɪu/
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(noun) A slow-moving, often stagnant creek or river.

A corpse was found at the bayou just yesterday.
Sami is from the bayou.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The explorers paddled their small boat through the marshy ____ in the south.

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