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<p>I was searching online for some idioms, and I found a pretty comprehensive list of idioms, all though I am sure it is not all the idioms, but I thought that this would be great list to practice/reffer to/memorize for the SAT Writing Section:
IDIOMS</p>

<p>able to, ability to, accede to, according to, account for, accuse of , acquaint with, agree with, allow for, amount to, appear to, apply to, argue over, as __ as, associate with, assure that, at a disadvantage, attempt to, attend to, attention to, attest to, attribute to, available to, afflicted with, argue with, averse to, ask of, agree to, angry at</p>

<p>based on, because of, believe to be, between [a] and **, call for, craving for, choice of, choose from, choose to, claim to, collaborate with, conclude that, consequence of, consider, consistent with, continue to, contrast with, contribute to, convert to, cost to/of, credit with, comply with, conform to, consider to be, composed of, compare with/to, consist in, consist with, consist of, correspond to, correspond with</p>

<p>date from, deal with, debate over, decide to, defend against, define as, delighted by, demonstrate that, depend on, depict as, descend from, different from, difficult to, distinguish [a] from *, draw on, due to, desirous of, divergent from, decide on, [in an] effort to, either…or, enamored with, encourage to, estimate to be, expose to, extend to, extent of, equal, equal to, fear that, fluctuations in, forbid to, force to, frequency of, from [a] to *, fail in</p>

<p>hypothesize that, in contrast to, in danger of, in order to, in violation of, inclined to, infected with, instead of, introduce to, isolate from, intent to, in search of, inside, just as…so too, less than, likely to, liken to</p>

<p>mistake for, model after, more than, move away from, meet with, meet, [a] native of, native to, neither…nor, not [a] but **, not only…but also, not so much…as, necessity of, necessity for, name, on account of, opportunity for, opportunity to, opposed to, opposite of, ought to, off</p>

<p>prejudiced against, permit to, persuade to, predisposed to, pressure to, prevent from, prized by, prohibit from, protect against, provide with, preferable to, prior to, partake of, practice for, practice to, practice of, question whether, range from [a] to **, rather than, regard as, replace with, require to, required of, [the] responsibility to, responsible for, result from, result in, rule that, result of</p>

<p>[the] same as, see as, send to, sense of so…that, spend on, subject to, substitute [a] for **, suffer from, superior to, supplant by, suspicious of, sympathy for, sympathize with, separate from, target at, think of…as, threaten to, train to, transit to, try to, type of, tamper with, tie to, try to, tend, tend to, use as, [the] use of, view as, vote for, visit, willing to, worry about</p>

<p>Thank you so much!!!</p>

<p>yeah thanks very much. i got an idea. why don't we make this post a post where people can post idioms they saw in past sats? i think that i saw for example "predilection for" on more than one.</p>

<p>Sure. =D Sounds good. If you guys want to add.. and then when we get alot more idioms, I'll add them to the list.</p>

<p>thanks! this is what I was looking for</p>

<p>Bumpp..,,,</p>

<p>Thanks for the list.</p>

<p>bump........</p>

<p>Yeah, it's a good list but I think it won't serve too much unless we try to use the words in sentences and have somebody competent check them for us.
There are two main reasons for doing so: </p>

<ol>
<li><p>Memorization from context is easier.</p></li>
<li><p>Some idioms are way too specific. For instance, while one knows that native goes with of or to, one may still get the question wrong because one may not know that native of is commonly only used for people's nationality whereas native to is used for species characteristic to a specific region.</p></li>
</ol>

<p>Well, as I said , It can be used as a reference sheet. It's up to you to memorize it if you want to, and yes your two points do make sense, but I think a list of idioms can be quite useful. haha</p>

<p>this old thread deserves a bump</p>

<p>Excellent List! Thanks!</p>

<p>none of these words are idioms at all. all they are are verbs and prepositions that you can put together if you knew the definitions of the words</p>

<p>there is generally no direct testing of idioms on the SAT</p>

<p>for example, the “native” in “native of” and “native to” are both defined in the dictionary as separate meanings unattended by the “of” or “to”. idioms cannot be broken into single words and still retain meaning when put back together with the real definitions. neither phrase is an idiom</p>

<p>Emmm…I cannot totally agree with crazybandit since the SAT,based on my experience while practicing the Official Guide and Online Courses,actually,holds a certain range of idioms,phrases,vocabularies that frequently appear in the articles.Many predecessors who have conquer this game demonstrate a common solution of cracking such a problem,that is,to look up your dictionary and memorize the accurate meaning given by the authorities.
Beside,akvareli does really help!I</p>

<p>how is “visit” an idiom?</p>

<p>thank you OP!</p>

<p>Not to be a Debbie Downer, but those ain’t idioms.</p>

<p>I have question, I would like to know what is an idiom and diction? could someone explain? </p>

<p>and is it important?</p>