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CPS HSAT Vocabulary · Tier 3

infrastructure

noun

Definition

the basic facilities of a country or area

In a sentence

Roads and bridges are part of public infrastructure.

Similar words

  • framework

Why this word matters: infrastructure 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.