Today's Word "turbid"
Disturbed or confused
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turbid \TUR-bid\ (adjective) - 1 : Muddy; thick with or as if with roiled sediment; not clear; -- used of liquids of any kind. 2 : Thick; dense; dark; -- used of clouds, air, fog, smoke, etc. 3 : Disturbed; confused; disordered.
"And he had a friend, a Slow- Solid Tortoise, who lived on the banks of the turbid Amazon, eating green lettuces and things." -- Rudyard Kipling, 'Just-So Stories'
Turbid comes from Latin turbidus, "confused, disordered," from turba, "disturbance, commotion."
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