<p>For the critical reading section, I'm pretty bad at all these annoyingly esoteric words that show up in the plug in the vocabulary section. </p>
<p>For questions where I'm not familiar with the meaning of the words given as choices, what are some good tips to help figure it out? Or is guessing/leaving it blank the only real option I have if I don't know it? </p>
<p>Also, in addition to studying new vocab, what are some study tips for these questions? </p>
<p>The majority of my wrong answers in the critical reading section come from these questions, so I'm desperate for help.</p>
<p>I haven't memorized any words but what I do is relate the words to the other languages I know.</p>
<p>Study prefixes, suffixes, and parts of words. Whenever I encounter a word I've never seen before, I always look for its prefix and suffix, and then try to make an educated guess on what its definition is. </p>
<p>A quick fact: did you know that the word "sincere" literally means "without wax"? "Sin" means without in Latin, and "cere" means wax. Apparently during the Middle Ages some dishonest architects filled pillars with wax instead of stone/cement, and the term "sincere" was coined for those who did not use wax in their pillars. XD Interesting, isn't it? I think you'll discover a lot of other such things when you study the roots of the English language.</p>
<p>Ha, that is kinda nifty. I use Latin constantly if I don't know words. In fact, the word Floccinausinihilipilification's meaning can be found if you know Latin roots. However, it is doubtful that that word would be on the test, but the word "paucity" could be, which has the latin root of something like "pausus?" meaning few.</p>