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CPS HSAT Vocabulary · Tier 3

carnivore

noun

Definition

a meat-eating animal

In a sentence

Lions are top carnivores.

Similar words

  • meat-eater
  • predator

Why this word matters: carnivore 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.