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CPS HSAT Vocabulary · Tier 3

bronchitis

noun

Definition

inflammation of the lung's air passages

In a sentence

He coughed for weeks with bronchitis.

Why this word matters: bronchitis 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.