smog
noun/smɑɡ/
Frequency rank: #12,446 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
a form of air pollution consisting of smoke and fog mixed together, common in cities.
Example sentence
The city skyline was barely visible through the thick smog.
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