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CPS HSAT Vocabulary · Tier 3

antibody

noun

Definition

a protein that fights specific infections

In a sentence

Vaccines train the body to make antibodies.

Why this word matters: antibody 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.