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CPS HSAT Vocabulary · Tier 3

mercurial

adjective

Definition

subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood

In a sentence

His mercurial temper was hard to predict.

Similar words

  • volatile
  • moody

Why this word matters: mercurial 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.