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CPS HSAT Vocabulary · Tier 3

tropical

adjective

Definition

relating to the regions near the equator

In a sentence

Tropical rainforests are full of biodiversity.

Similar words

  • equatorial

Why this word matters: tropical 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.