How did you guys study for the vocab?

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<p>People! Don't do Barron's (the whole thing). Learn the high frequency and hot prospect words, and then learn Sparknotes and you should be set.</p>

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<p>Can anyone tell me what book the 3500 Barron's words are in?</p>

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<p>Read more. I have what some might call a very impressive vocabulary. A lot of people call me "Webster" in Elgish...and "TI(Texas Instruments)" in math. However, when I read a great book (meaning Plato, Dickens, or something of the sort), I find words that I can't get by with just context clues. I write them down and eventually look them up.</p>

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<p>Where can you buy Sparknotes 1000? I live in Canada.</p>

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<p>i agree w/ altruist...just read and look up words you don't know. hopefully, once you know the definition, you see some word root you failed to see before</p>

<p>ex: the word "malaise" was on a practice test i took (luckily, guessed it correctly), but after i looked it up and saw that it meant bad, sick, etc, the first thing that clicked was spanish...mal means bad. it might sound stupid but it works</p>

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<p>Search amazon for books, I found a lot of SAT prep books in there.</p>

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<p>Just so you know mal means bad in almost every languadge (as in, it not necesarily the word itself but the root derived from latin for bad) i.e malignant, malaise, malpractice, malicious, etc.</p>

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<p>Good luck next time.</p>

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How did you guys study for your Critical Reading / Vocabulary?

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<p>To answer the main question in this thread, a good way to do better in critical reading is to READ, READ, READ, and READ. </p>

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<p>One book I recommended to an English as a second language learner years ago was Webster's</a> New World Power Vocabulary, and there are various other books like this, which you can find by following the links from the Amazon.com page.</p>

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<p>I have read tons of books, from well-known books such as Blindness (by winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1998) to TIME magazine. I have read gazillions of reads. My reading level still has not yet improved, at least not by alot..</p>

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<p>Try listening to some cd's. I picked up "Not too scary Vocabulary" by Renee Mazer at costco a few weeks back and they really have improved my vocabulary. Its also a pretty entertaining listening to the cd's.</p>