Explain
Explain verb - To make plain or understandable.
Fog
Fog verb - To make (something) unclear to the understanding.
Both words in one sentence
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Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense to JFK and LBJ, spent much of his later career admitting the Vietnam War was terribly wrong and trying to explain how he and his fellow politicians could have seen otherwise, like in the Oscar-winning documentary The Fog of War.
Source: The Atoner - The games original plot was that Lex Luthor was spreading Kryptonite Fog all over Metropolis, which was clearly a clumsy attempt to explain the game's ridiculous amount of fogging (a common trick used in early 3D games to prevent framerate dips).
Source: Hand Wave
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