<p>How good am I for Vocab in CR? What else should I memorize? I know DH is usually the best list, but ~400 words doesn't seem like enough...</p>
<p>I am shooting to be able to get 18-19/19 of the sentence completion questions correct.</p>
<p>Honestly, we can never know. More than likely, there will be words on the SAT you don’t know…but that’s for everyone. What we can do is eliminate a LOT of the words we know and use educated guesses as to the correct answers. Direct Hits should help a lot with this. If you really want to guarantee a high scores, maybe study roots, prefixes, suffixes, etc?</p>
<p>@sa0209 I agree with what you said about educated guesses and process of elimination… With the suffixes, prefixes? not as much… here’s why, the English language is REALLY crazy when you think about it, many suffix/prefix and even pronunciation rules can be thrown out the window with MANY words… For example, you may know what the roots “in” and “dig” mean, but do you know the difference between ‘indigenous’, ‘indignant’, and ‘indigent’? Irreplaceable and Implacable look like they should come from the same root meaning, but they concern TOTALLY different things. </p>
<p>I think the only thing we can do is just memorize words for the SAT… it’s just about finding the best and most efficient lists.</p>
<p>Learning roots is not about that. It’s being able to figure out words you’ve never seen before. Like, let’s say you have no idea what euthanasia means, but you’re good with Latin/Greek roots. You could easily see the -eu- in the beginning, which means good, and -than-, which means death. Obviously, it means good death. Boom, you just learned a word you’ve never seen before that you couldn’t have otherwise figured out during the test.</p>
<p>And memorization is not the key to SAT CR. You obviously need a decent baseline vocabulary, but it is so much more about context clues, roots, and being able to tell which word sounds right in the sentence. i.e. knowing when words ending in ‘cious’ just sound right in the sentence, if all else fails.</p>
<p>Learning roots should also be somewhat intuitive now that you know all those words. </p>
<p>Malicious and malice - from those words, you should know what the root “mal-” means</p>
<p>Euphony vs cacaphony - “eu-” means good; “caca-” means bad (as in a lot of noise)</p>
<p>Cataclysm, cataclysmic - “cata” means a violent change.</p>
<p>its luck. i studied the direct hits words but not a single one showed up on my SAT</p>
<p>Dusterbug is right. There’s nothing else you should be memorizing. While it’s impressive that you memorized the entire book, it’s going to help you a lot less than you think. I’m hoping that while memorizing all those words, you took the time to examine their formations and how that influences their meaning. That’ll help you much more than simple definitions.</p>