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CPS HSAT Vocabulary · Tier 3

imperial

adjective

Definition

relating to an empire

In a sentence

The imperial palace was full of art.

Similar words

  • royal
  • grand

Why this word matters: imperial 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.