<p>I am trying to learn most of the SAT vocabulary over the summer. Currently, I want to step my vocabulary up a notch so I am looking at a GRE vocab book. Roughly half of the vocabulary overlaps with the SAT so I was wondering if this is beneficial on top of learning the standard Barron's list? What is the best vocabulary preparation for the SAT?</p>
<p>I hear the GRE vocab has a lot of words that normal people would just never use. The SAT tends to have a lot more practical words that you can easily find when reading a book or newspaper article. I think it's best you study out of one of the regular SAT vocab lists like Barron's.</p>
<p>I would recommend learning roots, prefixes, and suffixes to supplement your vocab lists. That and read, read, read. I might be an anomaly but i spent 15 minutes max on vocab lists (i went from a 660 to an 800). If you can't use the words in context, it's kinda pointless imo.</p>