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an atmospheric condition in which suspended particles in the air rob it of its transparency in soup like this, amateur pilots can easily become disoriented Synonyms brume, fog, gauze, mist, murk, reek, smog, hazeRelated Words bank, cloud, fume, miasma, smoke, smother, steam

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