That’s true, but that is a true opinion that may or may not apply to everyone else, as opposed to sophisticated research that proves again and again that buying DH is a waste of one’s (or his parents’) money.
For example, a word lists lover here posted statistics of words that consistently came up when searching 60 SATs (http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/1191190-top-400-vocabulary-words.html).
Now, these are some of the words: (aesthetic), (undermine), (profound), (refute), (skeptical), (ambivalent), (hostile), (condemn), (assert), (nostalgia), (pretense), (cynical), (obscure), (conventions), (contempt), (foster).
Do you really think that those words are ones that most people don’t know??? They aren’t much different from words like (I), (me), (good), and (school). They are nothing compared to words like ecclesiastical, mitigate, and even supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (which, I will assure you, will hopefully not be on the new SAT).
These are some of the hard words in the list compiled: (emollient), (disenfranchised), (erudition), (expropriated), (expunge), (exultant), (extricate). Do you know their frequency?
**Four **percent. As I like to quote Mr. Xig, the scores on the SAT would have EXPONENTIATED if the fairy tale of rote is true (which it isn’t).
I’m not discounting your achievements. If you have done well and believe in it firmly, I can’t be deceived (disregarding the fact that scores on the SAT correlate with the hours studying for the SAT). However, for others it is simply a waste of their time. Why can’t they just open the >40 SAT tests and not only learn words they didn’t know before, but also procure the fine element of context. That is what DH fails at: DH is not TCB, and TCB is not DH.