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CPS HSAT Vocabulary · Tier 3

continent

noun

Definition

a large landmass

In a sentence

Africa is the second largest continent.

Similar words

  • landmass

Why this word matters: continent 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.