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CPS HSAT Vocabulary · Tier 2

dispirit

verb

Definition

to make sad

In a sentence

The bad weather dispirited the campers.

Similar words

  • dishearten
  • depress

Why this word matters: dispirit 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.