<p>I would rather have a word memorized and be able to eliminate all wrong choices immediately rather than “reason” through it. By not learning new vocabulary simply by reassuring yourself that you can reason through the sentence completions, you’re hurting yourself. Reasoning may help, but it takes up more time than if you just knew the word. The whole point is that you shouldn’t make it a goal to memorize x number of words per day. You should be looking up words you don’t understand in your school novels, the newspaper, etc. When you’re bored or waiting in line for something, pull out a vocab list and look over some new words. You may come to enjoy it.</p>