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WordBand 6.5–8Academic (NAWL)
oxygen
/ˈɒksɪdʒən/
noun
a gas in the air that has no smell or taste, and that all animals need to breathe
- “It is impossible to live without water and without oxygen.”Tatoeba
- “Brain cells are particularly sensitive to a loss of oxygen.”Tatoeba
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Source: New Academic Word List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR)