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WordBand 6.5–8Academic (NAWL)
delta
/ˈdɛltə/
noun
the place a river divides before entering a larger body of water
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Source: New Academic Word List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0)