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CPS HSAT Vocabulary · Tier 3

artillery

noun

Definition

large-caliber guns

In a sentence

Artillery shelled the fortress.

Similar words

  • cannon

Why this word matters: artillery 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.