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Fallow

/fˈæˌloʊ/
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(noun) Ground ploughed and harrowed but left unseeded for one year.

This field is fallow.
That fallow paddy field does not yield anymore.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The farmer left the field ____ for a year to allow the soil to regain its natural nutrients.

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