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CPS HSAT Vocabulary · Tier 3

archive

noun

Definition

a collection of historical records

In a sentence

The town's archive holds century-old records.

Similar words

  • records
  • library

Why this word matters: archive 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.