<p>Hi,
Could anyone who score high on CR tell me that can roots, prefixes, suffixes solve the sentence completion problems without knowing words ? I read in Grammatix and Mike Barret firmly guides us to do sentence completions only by knowing prefixes...
P/S : Could you also suggest some wordlists to help us do well in sentence completion ?</p>
<p>google sparknote’s 1000 most common SAT words.</p>
<p>Well, if you know roots, prefixes, and suffixes, then you have to know the word.</p>
<p>Thank for your replies.
I think the Grammatix Happy/Sad Test is ineffective in some cases, like testing the word “harangue”. Could anyone test this word (obviously without knowing the exact meaning) ?</p>
<p>I would say negative.</p>
<h2>I see harangue as deranged or insane. Since being inside can’t be good, and harangue sounds like it. I guessed negative. </h2>
<p>After looking it up, I was right. harangue means “a scolding or a long or intense verbal attack; diatribe.”</p>
<p>It seem extremely difficult for an ESL student like me to infer that word like you !</p>
<p>Positive and negative connotations help me solve questions more often than knowing prefixes, roots and suffixes. You can often eliminate 3 answers because of the connotations.</p>