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CPS HSAT Vocabulary · Tier 3

caldera

noun

Definition

a large crater formed by collapse of a volcano

In a sentence

The caldera filled with rainwater.

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Why this word matters: caldera 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.