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CPS HSAT Vocabulary · Tier 3

amphibious

adjective

Definition

able to live or operate on both land and water

In a sentence

Frogs are amphibious creatures.

Why this word matters: amphibious 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.