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CPS HSAT Vocabulary · Tier 3

mammal

noun

Definition

a warm-blooded animal whose females nurse their young

In a sentence

Whales are mammals despite living in the sea.

Why this word matters: mammal 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.