collegefreak89

I have the big word vocabulary list containing 2200+, but don't know if it is worth memorizing all of it. Any else think that their words are right on target and if I should memorize them all????????????????????????????????????

stuck-on-1700

memorize the ones you see on the SAT.
the word amalgam was in June, May and January this year for example.

if you don't wanna do that then just randoml pick pages and memorize them. it works for me

Gumball

Memorize latin roots, greek roots, prefixes, and such.

skywalker99

ye gumballs rite.. also try to memorize a high frequency list..

caa5042

Gumball do those REALLY help? I've always disregarded them.

aznosamaboy

you still owe me my AP tests :[

tubaman93

Yeah study the roots and prefixes.

The unfamiliar words on the SAT can be deciphered by prefixes and roots.

Murasaki

People go so crazy with these definitions . . . .

You're going to use 7-10 of them on the test. It's not worth memorizing thousands for three sentence completion sectoins. There're better ways, like actually reading SAT type texts that contain words. You'd be surprised at how often you saw words you came across. Memorizing prefixes and roots is a better idea, anyway.

jhkim89

the list in the baaron study guide is pretty helpful...they have stars beside the most frequent ones

Quesce

Hey I saw that Kaplan sells story books with difficult vocab in them..I'm going to try one out.

stuck-on-1700

yes 10 char..

chrischang

i agree with murasaki. i would say taht memorizing 2200+ words isn't too necessary. i didnt even look at a vocab list and i still did pretty well on the crit reading, because there's like 8 sentence completion questions, and most of those can be done without having to know the actual words.