Vocab Practice: Miasma

Miasma-cool-wordsThis word appeared on the Cool Word Club website on Dec. 19, 2013.

Let’s do a practice round!

Miasma means:

A) A very deep hole
B) An unpleasant smell or vapor
C) An extreme elevation
D) A heavily populated urban area

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A Scary Winter Miasma!

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It’s winter in China, which means the sky is filled with thick smog in many areas.

As China fires up its coal heaters for the season, this polluted miasma (see definition and hear pronunciation below) hovers over such cities as Shanghai and Beijing–and it’s getting worse.

Imagine what it must [Read more…]