<p>I'm taking the SAT and encounter lots of abstruse vocabulary,it's indeed very difficult to mark a right answer without understand what they are talking about,so i tried some ways to build up my vocabulary and right now it have some efficency,you guys have any way to build up your vocabulary,could you expose your way??</p>
<p>i use flashcardexchange.com ;) pretty good tools there</p>
<p>Make your own flashcards. Writing down definitions does wonders for your memory rather than just "browsing" them.</p>
<p>I've made roughly 500 flashcards in the past two days and I can remember 90% of them the first time through, then just make a pile for the more difficult ones and focus on those.</p>
<p>vocabulary cartoons.........they work..except some words are a little too easy, but I think they have enough good words to get you through the R.</p>
<p>Start obsessing over your little "friends" (aka words) and start "stalking" them (aka learning their definitions and all of that good stuff).
I keep a little word journal. It's not merely for the SAT; I genuinely like words. :)</p>
<p>I doubt you're really getting any "hard, rare" words on the SAT. That's what I've noticed. A lot of the words on the SAT aren't really that hard, you just have to have a general knowledge of a words, like connotation.</p>
<p>If you're looking for REAL hard words your probably won't receive on the SAT, try looking at Barron's 2400.</p>
<p>^ The words in that book aren't really that hard... to pick a random group of 5: obfuscate, obliged, oblique, olfactory, onerous. Those don't seem harder than SAT sentence completion type words...</p>
<p>I didn't know what obfuscate was</p>
<p>I already knew the other 4 though</p>