(Good) Novels with Great SAT Vocabulary List!

<p>post away!!!!</p>

<p>well there is a book called tooth and nail which suposedly has an excellent vocab list. It bolds the SAT words and then has a glossary and tells you what they mean.</p>

<p>One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
LOTR
Harry Potter
Anna Karenin[a]
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
Ishmael </p>

<p>All are pretty obvious except Harry Potter. If you know Latin/Spanish/French/romance languages, it isn’t as useful, but if you don’t…:smiley:
ex–expel
pel–push
arm–weapon

  • expelliarmus–disarms
    expulso–blows stuff up
    expecto patronum–expels a patronus *
    fid–secret, confidence
    the fidelius charm–keeps people secret
    patr–fatherhood
    patronus, patronum–takes the form of James Potter’s animangus
    mort–death
    Voldemort
    verit–truth
    veritiserum–truth potion</p>

<p>I could do this forever, but I’ll stop now. :P</p>

<p>Oh, and it’s not related to vocab, but I swear I have worked One Hundred Years of Solitude into every single SAT essay.</p>

<p>O.o really? i need to read that book then</p>

<p>Hi Xiata
I’ve read the novels you listed and my vocab has significantly improved after each one. Could you post more similar ones?</p>

<p>I need help with my vocabs as well :S:S memorizing them from flashcards do not seem to help since my short-term memory is really bad…</p>

<p>A Tale of Two Cities
Last of the Mohicans
Scarlet Letter</p>

<p>I found the Last of the Mohicans to be extremely helpful. It probably has a fifth of the SAT words listed in barron’s 3500 basic word list. And once you start reading, it’s really not as boring as the title sounds.</p>