<p>Hey can someone help me out with vocabulory. I just find it difficult to remember the meanings of words. thnX!!!</p>
<p>Memorizing vocabulary lists won't help you. You have to actually see the words used and use them yourself. </p>
<p>Reading dense literature helps; as does engaging in intelligent discourse with educated persons on nontrivial topics.</p>
<p>I have a question though, everyone talks about vocabulary.</p>
<p>There isn't like... a section on the test or questions that ask for meanings of words, is there??</p>
<p>I am so confused!</p>
<p>On the critical reading sections, there is a small portion (about 4 questions) that ask you to fill in the blank with the appropriate vocabulary word.</p>
<p>Thus, it's totally pointless to study 50000 words for 12 questions on a test.</p>
<p>Actually, there are 19 (8,6,5) vocab questions per test. Out of a total of 67 questions, vocab comprises 28.3% of the critical reading test. That's the difference between a 100 and a 71.7 on an assignment or more importantly an 800 vs. a 600. Don't listen to everyone about how vocab is unimportant because they clearly do not know what they are talking about such as the previous post.</p>
<p>There's a site <a href="http://www.psdinc.org%5B/url%5D">www.psdinc.org</a> that has a cheap automated SAT flash card program. I bought the program and it has really made studying vocab a lot easier. Good Luck!</p>
<p>If you have trouble remembering the meaning of words, perhaps you could work on memorizing roots. You would still have to do some memorizing, but for every root you learn, you would know several words.</p>
<p>Simple solution: start reading more. Read the newspaper, read classic literature, heck, read the new Harry Potter, and you'll pick up a lot more vocabulary. Also, try to take the AP English/AP History courses, I felt that those kinds of courses in particular made my vocabulary more sophisticated because of all the college level reading material and the essays that needed to be written. Simply cramming vocab isn't enough, as to really understand words, one must gain familiarity with them.</p>
<p>Yeah! I picked up the word "succumb" from harry potter!</p>
<p>reading is definitely better for vocab that word lists.</p>
<p>while you are reading, and you find a word that you dont know, look it up. it will help to see how a word is used in its context</p>
<p>thnk you for all your help</p>
<p>i picked up emaciated and palpable from the new harry Potter</p>
<p>500 SAT Words, and How To Remember Them Forever!
this book is amazing. it helps you remember vocab words by giving you a picture or story that incorporates the word
it really helped me to expand my vocabulary and i still remember many of the words along with their examples even though i havent looked at the book in ages.</p>