Bobbing for apples, though sometimes comparable to dunking your head in a cesspool of saliva, wasn’t always the kid-friendly activity we know today.

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We give you an obscure word with four definitions—one correct, three made up. Can you identify the correct one?
As Stephen King once said, novellas are “too long to be short and too short to be really long.”
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