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How to spell antibiotics

Antibiotics is spelled A-N-T-I-B-I-O-T-I-C-S.

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What it means: Medicines that destroy or prevent the growth of bacteria.

In a sentence: Strong antibiotics can help people recover from bacterial infections.

The part people get wrong

Starts with anti- and ends with -ics.

Same family: antibiotic. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

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