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CPS HSAT Vocabulary · Tier 1

rather

adverb

Definition

to a certain degree

In a sentence

It was rather cold.

Similar words

  • somewhat
  • fairly

Why this word matters: rather 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.