<p>Direct Hits really lived up to its name this weekend. As many have noted, DH produced a number of serious hits on the Saturday SAT. Turns out DH also did serious damage on the Sunday SAT. My brother’s friend took the Sunday SAT. He can’t remember everything but reports that DH saved the day with hits on IGNOMINY, ACOLYTE, UBIQUITOUS, APOPLECTIC, WATERSHED, CHARISMATIC, RAMPANT, UPBRAID, PROVISIONAL, COMPLICITY, EXONERATE, DICHOTOMY, and NOSTALGIA. Did anyone else take the Sunday SAT?</p>
<p>Killing it with words such as …</p>
<p>IGNOMINY, ACOLYTE, UBIQUITOUS, APOPLECTIC, WATERSHED, CHARISMATIC, RAMPANT, UPBRAID, PROVISIONAL, COMPLICITY, EXONERATE, DICHOTOMY, and NOSTALGIA? </p>
<p>You may add hyperbole!</p>
<p>^Im curious. Using the ETS’s five point scale of difficulty how would you rank the above words?</p>
<p>All those words were on the June '10 test…that’s curious.</p>
<p>^ It was the exact same test, I wish I had taken the Sunday test. :/</p>
<p>I have no idea what direct hits is, but how did they know literally every vocabulary on the Sunday SAT?? I took it an that vocabulary section was so hard!! is it just me?</p>
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<p>This is in DH? What does it mean? I’m only getting medical definitions…</p>
<p>Wait they reused a test??? Seems like someone could have taken the June one and then this one and been at a huge advantage…</p>
<p>^No, they don’t issue the June 2010.</p>
<p>The only way to have an advantage is to (1) take the June Saturday and then suddenly convert to a religion that requires you to take a Sunday test by October or (2) read the answers in the old “June 2010 SAT” thread. </p>
<p>Both are very unlikely. CB has randomly, and I mean RANDOMLY, re-used tests, usually only for internationals and Sunday test takers.</p>
<p>apoplectic?
doesn’t it mean “furious”?</p>
<p>Yes, APOPLECTIC means furious</p>
<p>Just a note here. It’s fine to study word lists with definitions, but it’s not a substitute for reading. Just as an example, it’s true, in a way that “apopleptic” means “furious.” But it has shades of meaning that are different. It means that the person was so furious that he was about to burst, or have a stroke. If somebody turned red, and the veins stood out on his forehead and neck, and steam began to come out of his ears, you’d say that he was “apopleptic.” You won’t get that from a word list.</p>
<p>^Everything has its limitations. For example, LANGUID, LANGUOR, LANGUISH, LETHARGIC, DORMANT, INDOLENT, INERT, SLUGGARD, LAGGARD, SLOTHFUL& SLUGGISH, all mean “lazy” or “inactive”. But, each one has its own peculiar use, in which none of the other words could replace. For example, you can’t say that “John is inert”, while you can say that “Some gases are inert”!!</p>
<p>In October saturday International direct hits sucked for “hits”;however they helped to eliminate wrong choices.</p>