<p>On ascending order, the ways we learn something efficiently go like that (according to an epistemologist whose name I always forget) :
[list=a]What we hear
[<em>]What we see
[</em>]What we write
[li]What we teach/apply[/li][/list]
So, in order to master vocabulary, I think this method would do the trick, as it combines all, since we see, write and apply what we know. This is how it works:
The previous person gives you a hard, SAT-level word and the person replying has to make a sentence with that word. The sentence has to show the meaning of this word, and it should be well-applied. You get what I mean. Then, after the posted sentence, the person also has to provide another SAT word (without the definition). The following person takes that word and makes a sentence, and also gives another word of his/her own.</p>
<p>Example
[quote]
Poster 1:
"It is said that Sculls and Bones is the most renowned society of Yale University, primarily because of its **esoteric **nature."</p>
<p>**perspicacious </p>
<p>**Poster 2:
"You could tell by her comments that she was a very **perspicacious **person; she had understood everything, in spite of the complexity of the lecture"</p>
<p>clandestine
[/quote]
</p>
<p>And so it goes.
I hope it works for all of us. It combines it all, and it would be a great way of expanding vocabulary!
Continue with clandestine from the example..</p>
<p>Thomas Jefferson felt that an embargo would be a panacea to all the foreign woes and problems. He however failed to understand the severe complexity of the situation.</p>
<p>In Oscar Wilde's novels, there is particular emphasis on the **perquisites **of the elite class, which is considered to be accurately representative of the current social stratification.</p>