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CPS HSAT Vocabulary · Tier 3

ammonia

noun

Definition

a colorless gas with a strong smell

In a sentence

Ammonia is found in many cleaning products.

Why this word matters: ammonia appears in academic reading at the 8th-grade level and is exactly the type of word that shows up on the CPS HSAT Reading section. Practice it in context with our spaced-repetition system at vocabulary.