<p>I took a practice the other day from the BB, and I had missed a vocab question in one of the CR sections. I remembered that when I took it I did not know any of the vocab in the choices. I thought they would be in the DH V2, which I haven't memorized yet; but after I went through every vocab word it was not in there. Not even one of the five choices was in DH V1 or 2. How often does this happen on the SAT?</p>
<p>Can you give me the five words?</p>
<p>What were the 5 words?</p>
<p>Reprehensible, Palliative, Depreciatory, Litigous, Compendious</p>
<p>Reprehensible should be a common word that you should know
Litigous seems like litigating, or to accuse
Depreciatory sounds like depreciate, which means to reduce in value
If it’s one of those, you should have been able to get the answer. If not, you have a 50-50 chance.</p>
<p>Which question was it?</p>
<p>BB (1st one) pg. 401 # 5:
She apologized profusely, only to discover that her self-serving excuses failed to have a ______ effect. </p>
<p>I figured out depreciatory. I marked it off. However, I did not know any of the other words.</p>
<p>It doesn’t make sense to have a reducing effect. Palliative sounds like a pill you take that lessens the pain. That fits better.</p>
<p>Anyway, it is difficult for any book to get every word on the SAT without being thousands of words long</p>
<p>I recommend trying the SAT question of the day. The answer to your question, palliative, was the answer to a recent QOTD.</p>
<p>@garfieldliker by marked it off I mean remove it from the possible answers.</p>
<p>@apn00b I do use QOTD and I only missed this question because I wasn’t able to cross more than one off. I got the recent QOTD correct because I knew most of the other words. However, when I have four or five choices that could be right (because I don’t know them), the guess would require luck.</p>