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CPS HSAT Vocabulary · Tier 2

blight

noun

Definition

something that ruins

In a sentence

Drought is a blight on farms.

Similar words

  • plague
  • scourge

Why this word matters: blight 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.