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CPS HSAT Vocabulary · Tier 3

innocuous

adjective

Definition

not harmful or offensive

In a sentence

His comment seemed innocuous, but it caused a stir.

Similar words

  • harmless

Related vocabulary

Why this word matters: innocuous 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.