![]() ![]() It means generosity, and you should see why from its roots. For instance, if you want to learn the word magnanimity, you should notice that it has three parts: magna (great) + anima (spirit or life) + - ity (suffix indicating a quality). Reinforce your new words by breaking them into their roots, prefixes, and suffixes and connecting them to other words that share them. The 49 lessons in this chapter include 200 of the key roots, prefixes, and suffixes, as well as lists of synonyms and antonyms for each word. On the next couple of pages we”ll give you lots of good strategies for building vocabulary with a friend.Īs you run across new words, think about their roots, their synonyms, and their antonyms. If you feel self-conscious about trying out new words (and most teens do), find a close friend or relative to practice vocabulary with-maybe a friend who”s also prepping for the SAT. ![]() To build your vocabulary, you have to try out your new words. Use Your New Vocabulary with Friends and Family Read articles and stories from Harper”s, Atlantic Monthly, New Yorker, The Nation, and Scientific American. Read The New York Times Op-Ed page and Sunday Magazine. Watch documentaries on television rather than mindless game shows, soap operas, and reality shows. Hang around friends with good vocabularies. How do you rev it up again? Talk to smart adults. As you got older, however, your vocabulary grew to match that of the people you hung out with, so its growth slowed. When you were a baby, you were surrounded by people with much stronger vocabularies than yours, so your vocabulary grew very quickly. Instead, follow these rules while using the College Hill flashcard system (which is discussed below) to study the words in the lessons in this chapter. So don”t just study flashcards to memorize word meanings in isolation. When you take words out of the context of real communication, your brain”s “vocabulary machine” doesn”t work very well. You just absorbed them by trying to understand and communicate with the people around you. Did you memorize all those words with flashcards? No. If you”re a normal 16-year-old, you have about a 40,000-word vocabulary. Believe it or not, you”ve been using a much better system for years. In fact, the way most students use flashcards is not only dull, but utterly ineffective. ![]() But building a solid vocabulary doesn”t mean just memorizing thousands of flashcards. The 2,000 Key SAT Words and 200 Key SAT Roots: Vocabulary Units 1–7ġ THE COLLEGE HILL METHOD FOR SAT WORD POWERĪ strong vocabulary is essential to achieving a top SAT critical reading score. The College Hill Method for SAT Word PowerĢ. SAT Test Prep CHAPTER 3 BUILDING AN IMPRESSIVE VOCABULARYġ. ![]()
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