# Pollution vocabulary — A2

https://hienglishquiz.com/vocabulary/pollution-a2

- Title: Pollution Essentials
- CEFR: A2 (Elementary)
- Theme: Nature & Environment
- Words: 14

Words for air and water pollution in everyday life, such as factory, exhaust, plastic bag and rubbish dump, plus polluted, petrol and how people clean up.

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## Word list

* **pollution** /pəˈluʃən/: Dirty or harmful things in the air, water or ground. — “**Pollution** in big cities makes many people ill.”
* **waste** /weɪst/: Things that are left over, that nobody wants or uses. — “We try not to make too much food **waste**.”
* **traffic jam**: Many cars on a road that cannot move forward. — “I was late because of a **traffic jam**.”
* **factory** /ˈfæktəri/: A big building where machines make things. — “My uncle works in a car **factory**.”
* **exhaust** /ɪɡˈzɔst/: The gas that comes out of the back of a car. — “Bad **exhaust** from old cars makes the air dirty.”
* **recycling bin**: A container where you put old paper, glass and plastic so they can be used again. — “Put the empty cans in the **recycling bin**.”
* **plastic bag**: A thin, light sack from a shop for carrying things home. It is not paper or cloth. — “No thanks, I don’t need a **plastic bag**; I have my own.”
* **rubbish dump**: A large place outside a town where people take things they throw away. — “The **rubbish dump** is about ten kilometres from here.”
* **polluted** /pəˈlutɪd/: Not clean because there are harmful things in it. — “The river is too **polluted** to swim in.”
* **dust** /dʌst/: Very small dry bits of dirt that lie on floors and furniture. — “There is a lot of **dust** on the old books.”
* **oil** /ɔɪl/: A thick, dark liquid that comes from under the ground and is used for fuel. — “The country gets a lot of money from **oil**.”
* **clean up**: To take away dirt or rubbish from a place. — “After the party, we had to **clean up** the garden.”
* **chimney** /ˈtʃɪmni/: A tall pipe on a roof or factory that lets smoke go out. — “Grey smoke rose from the old factory **chimney**.”
* **petrol** /ˈpɛtroʊl/: A liquid fuel that you put into a car. — “We stopped to buy some **petrol** on the way.”

## Other levels

- [Pollution · A1](https://hienglishquiz.com/vocabulary/pollution-a1) — markdown: https://hienglishquiz.com/vocabulary/pollution-a1.md
- [Pollution · B1](https://hienglishquiz.com/vocabulary/pollution-b1) — markdown: https://hienglishquiz.com/vocabulary/pollution-b1.md
- [Pollution · B2](https://hienglishquiz.com/vocabulary/pollution-b2) — markdown: https://hienglishquiz.com/vocabulary/pollution-b2.md
- [Pollution · C1](https://hienglishquiz.com/vocabulary/pollution-c1) — markdown: https://hienglishquiz.com/vocabulary/pollution-c1.md
- [Pollution · C2](https://hienglishquiz.com/vocabulary/pollution-c2) — markdown: https://hienglishquiz.com/vocabulary/pollution-c2.md

## More Nature & Environment vocabulary — A2

- [Sea Animals](https://hienglishquiz.com/vocabulary/sea-and-water-animals-a2) — markdown: https://hienglishquiz.com/vocabulary/sea-and-water-animals-a2.md
- [Weather](https://hienglishquiz.com/vocabulary/weather-a2) — markdown: https://hienglishquiz.com/vocabulary/weather-a2.md
- [Wild Animals](https://hienglishquiz.com/vocabulary/birds-a2) — markdown: https://hienglishquiz.com/vocabulary/birds-a2.md
- [Farm Animals](https://hienglishquiz.com/vocabulary/farm-and-domestic-animals-a2) — markdown: https://hienglishquiz.com/vocabulary/farm-and-domestic-animals-a2.md
- [Land Mammals](https://hienglishquiz.com/vocabulary/land-mammals-a2) — markdown: https://hienglishquiz.com/vocabulary/land-mammals-a2.md
- [More Land Mammals](https://hienglishquiz.com/vocabulary/land-mammals-2-a2) — markdown: https://hienglishquiz.com/vocabulary/land-mammals-2-a2.md

## Related

- All Nature & Environment sets: https://hienglishquiz.com/vocabulary#nature-environment
- Vocabulary library: https://hienglishquiz.com/vocabulary
- Section guide: https://hienglishquiz.com/vocabulary/llms.txt