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WordBand 6.5–8Academic (NAWL)
vitamin
/ˈvɑet.ə.mən/
noun
a substance that is healthy for your body and can be found in foods or taken as a medicine
- “These vitamins are essential for the human body.”Tatoeba
- “This vitamin boosts your immune system from diseases.”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)