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CPS HSAT Vocabulary · Tier 3

apparatus

noun

Definition

a complex set of equipment for a particular purpose

In a sentence

The lab apparatus was set up before class.

Similar words

  • equipment
  • device

Why this word matters: apparatus 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.