Today's Parola del Giorno is the noun lo smottamento, which means landslide. This noun comes from the verb smottare, which means to slide down. See the noun used below:
Dopo tre settimane di piogge torrenziali in montagna, la paura di uno smottamento di terra diventa davvero reale.
After three weeks of torrential rains in the mountains, the fear of a landslide is becoming a real possibility.
Grammatica da ricordare! Don't forget lo and uno are the definite and indefinite articles for masculine nouns (like lo smottamento). Use them when the noun begins with an: s + consonant, ps- (lo psicologo), gn- (lo gnomo), y (lo yogurt) or z (lo zaino).