Hot Words for the Sat I [antikvár]

Introduction Are you ready for the HOTTEST of the HOT WORDS? As a verbal tutor who takes the SAT ! several times a year and scores a perfect 800 verbal, I know the words that are most likely to appear. This book is divided into 35 lessons, containing more than 350 SAT I-level words. Additional SAT words are featured in the exercises. For the first time ever, this book contains Millennium Hot Words, featuring words that capture some flavor of today's world. These words are likely to appear more and more frequently on the SAT I. Why is this edition particularly HOT? The innovative format of this edition sets it apart from other vocabulary books. This new format, "Word Clustering," is especially effective in learning hundreds of vocabulary words. Unlike dictionary-style, alphabetized lists. Clustering groups Hot Words with similar meanings so that distinctions in usage and connotation can be made more apparent. Never before presented so comprehensively in an SAT I preparatory book, Clustering boosts vocabulary building exponentially! The majority of lessons in this book are Cluster-formatted so that you can expeditiously learn groups of words at a time. As you work through each Cluster lesson, read the definitions and illustrative sentences carefully. Challenge yourself to learn the nuance or shade of meaning for each individual word in the lesson. Memory Tips is a new and exciting part of Hot Words. Toward the end of each lesson, I show you how to capitalize on your memory and how to harness the meanings of a plethora of SAT I words. Hot Words shows you practical memory techniques (known as mnemonics) that you can apply to your vocabulary building. Memory Tips show you how resourcefulness and creativity can help you amass a large, upper-level vocabulary. Research shows that memory works predominantly by linking something new or unknown to some knowledge that you already have. Linking an SAT word (the unknown) to some word you already know is an effective method for the daunting task of learning hundreds of upper-level words. Many Memory Tips work this way—by linking the new to the known. Other tips, as you'll see, use additional approaches that are just as effective. Some examples are Letter Clusters, Word Roots, Prefixes/Suffixes, and Chants.