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CPS HSAT Vocabulary · Tier 3

evaporate

verb

Definition

to turn from liquid into vapor

In a sentence

Water evaporates faster on hot days.

Similar words

  • vaporize

Why this word matters: evaporate 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.