<p>While reviewing all the vocab words, I just realized that I learned so much playing games. </p>
<p>For example:</p>
<p>dupe (diablo II)
novice</p>
<p>What are some of the words you guys learned from playing games lol.</p>
<p>lol I learned transmute from diablo 2</p>
<p>Diablo and Diablo 2 has helped me a lot in history and in useless trivia for academic competitions.</p>
<p>onetime i saw scimitar in a practice SAT question, i believe in an analogy.</p>
<p>provoke (Ragnorak)</p>
<p>pilfer - chrono cross....</p>
<p>You are definately right. I didn't practice at all for the SAT, I just showed up. On the verbal section I didn't miss single sentence completion or analogy, heck I zipped through them....I missed 4 critical reading which brought me down to a 760 but if I'd bothered to practice I doubt i'd have missed them...
Yeah I think two things above all else helped me build my formidable grammar and vocab skillz...games and Harry Potter. Man, if you read through the harry potter books and know every single big word you're all set.</p>
<p>^^^lmao. Harry Potter, I'm afraid, is rather lacking in the "big words" department.</p>
<p>succubus..</p>
<p>"a demon assuming female form to have sexual intercourse with men in their sleep"</p>
<p>D'oh! How could I forget...obviously ETS's favorite word!!!</p>
<p>Actually, I really like "kerfuffle," which I didn't find first in Harry Potter, but it is in there.</p>
<p>Impede (halo)</p>
<p>arbiter/zealot from starcraft</p>
<p>also a ton of magic the gathering cards have vocab words on them i.e. pernicious deed and addle</p>
<p>yeahh there are ton on magic cards but i always got to lazy to look them up if i saw them...</p>
<p>evade (forgot where)</p>