<p>What books or kind of books should I be reading to increase my vocab for the SAT? </p>
<p>I'm pretty bad at vocab, so any advice would be appreciated. </p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Wuthering Heights
Frankenstein</p>
<p>And pick up a couple Dickins</p>
<p>Jane Eyre is a really good book, in my opinion, and has plenty of great vocab, not to mention a very interesting plot.</p>
<p>eg: inanition, penurious, transient, surfeit, anathema, sequester, gregarious...</p>
<p>Are word lists any good to memorize?</p>
<p>Study Direct Hits...its amazing</p>
<p>I actually just did word lists when I was cramming...they worked for me.</p>
<p>But if you're the type that word-lists just confuse/screw up more, then you might as well go pick up a good book =/</p>
<p>meadow36 is right - Direct Hits is amazing...lots of literary examples...Great Gatsby has a number of good SAT vocab words. I love the image of Jay Gatsby standing aloof and staring silently at the green light across the bay.</p>
<p>all right</p>
<p>two different scenarios</p>
<p>if the test is only two weeks ago, i highly recommend you study direct hits</p>
<p>if not,</p>
<p>then i'd suggest these books:</p>
<p>anna karenina</p>
<p>the brothers karamazov</p>
<p>the scarlet letter</p>
<p>lol ^ did you mean two weeks from now?</p>
<p>yeah thats what i meant</p>
<p>what is direct hits?</p>
<p>Here is the 1st Hit Parade Vocab of 3.
SAT</a> Hit Parade List One</p>
<p>Also, go look in the sticky thread on how to study for the vocab and a poister posted free spark notes novels which you can read online and they are reasonably short.</p>
<p>abdul0393 - Direct Hits is a really good vocabulary book. You can see it on Amazon. DH really helped me prepare for the PSAT. See the thread "Which Vocab Book/List performed best on the Oct 08 PSATs?" on this page for more information about DH.</p>