<p>Does anyone have any good ways to study vocabulary for the SATs?</p>
<p>What your title says.</p>
<p>Best of Luck! ;)</p>
<p>:o no comment!</p>
<p>Sparknotes have this thing called "SAT novels".</p>
<p>Basically, you can read this novels online (check the website!) chapter by chapter. They have ALOT of hard, SAT, never-heard-of words. </p>
<p>However, because the novels are targeted at teeange audience, their plot is horrid. </p>
<p>I was reading this one but it was about some guy who was hot and the girl fell for him. It was almost like Princess Diaries only with hard vocabulary. I got bored and couldn't keep on.</p>
<p>Your title reminded me of the Wayside School book series. The chapter where the girl trips down the stairs between the 12th and 14th floors and enters the nonexistant 13th floor classroom where all the students spend all their time copying the dictionary.</p>
<p>That had nothing to do with your question, but it was just a random thing you reminded me of. lol</p>
<p>Depends on how far away you are from taking the SATs. If you're just a couple of months away, I recommend the Princeton Review vocabulary lists that organize words by similar meanings. You don't need to know every nuance of a word for the SAT, just its general meaning. Besides, it's MUCH easier to remember synonyms and categories than it is to memorize a separate definition for each word that JUST might show up.</p>
<p>If you have a couple of years, read. Read nonstop. Read whatever good book you can get your hands on. I'm talking anything from Ender's Game to Atlas Shrugged to Polgara the Sorceress. Read and challenge yourself. Read until you can pretty much know the meaning of a new word from its context. I had no trouble with the SAT verbal section or reading section even though I didn't study any vocabulary words, precisely because I've read so frequently and widely that there are very few words I have come across yet. So read! Reading helps with all aspects of your academic life.</p>
<p>memorized like the first 2 pages of Webster's 11th edition and then fell asleep..</p>
<p>Only about 1000 pages to go</p>
<p>Memorize Latin and Greek roots. Read books etymology and the structure of English words. Learn rules regarding affixes, morphemes, and yadada.</p>
<p>Yes, Emmeline's advice is good. But honestly, just READ. It'll do a world of good</p>
<p>memorizing is boring...reading is more fun and more educational, and introduces you to vocab at the same time....</p>
<p>I must second NotAmbidextrous........</p>
<p>OMG i LOVED wayside school is falling down!!! do you guys remember when the girl was going to cut off her toes and sell them</p>
<p>Ah, I remember that so fondly cowtipper! I ended up reading about 3/4 of Sachar's works by 6th grade because I enjoyed the quirky and eccentric stories so much. One of my favorite parts is when one of the children [Steven?] gets a tattoo of a potato on his [left foot?].</p>
<p>Etudiez une langue </p>
<p>how's the vocab going?</p>
<p>Roots and stems the best way to go. Reading itself isn't enough, learn to pick out words as you read and try to apply your knowledge of roots to figure out their meanings</p>
<p>Hi, I'm new to the forum.</p>
<p>SAT vocab can be hard. I studied with flashcards and did ok. It sucks, tho, because we're reading a book this semester in English 102, The Crying of lot 49, that has almost ALL the words I had to memorize, and a bunch of others I still have to look up. If you like to read that might be one way. </p>
<p>Or you could listen to vocab words and definitions in your sleep...:)</p>