<p>One blows hard = one sucks up.</p>
<p>Simple logic.</p>
<p>stupid words like this are the reason why Vocab lists can sometimes never truly prepare you for the vocab on SAT. </p>
<p>I don’t think I ever say Toady or Blowhard in any list by Barrons or PR</p>
<p>and why CR is actually testing, guess what? reading!!</p>
<p>The only way to encounter those words is through extensive lifetime reading. Some people think it’s unfair that you can’t easily beat the test through vocab lists…but I personally think that the fact you can’t makes the test score more meaningful. </p>
<p>Of course, I won’t deny some people can and will learn all the vocab they need through lists. But I have never heard of anyone who studies vocab to get consistent 800s. Those who can do that never usually never study vocab.</p>
<p>I think this sort of ties in to that other thread about what 800 is most impressive.</p>
<p>Yeah I agree, but on a much larger scale. Reading prepares you not only for CR, but for Math and writing as well. The SAT isn’t a reasoning test, its a reading test.</p>
<p>Yes, I completely agree with that. While W is very easy, you still have to be a pretty proficient reader to get in the 780-800 range.</p>
<p>Toady is actually in DH. So, does this word prove DH’s supremacy?</p>
<p>i put blowhard too!!! made soooo much sense!
suck up=blow hard</p>
<p>such a good connection. </p>
<p>lmao at this word, and at the question
not lmao at toady bein rite</p>
<p>prep 8, volume 2 or one? wow, direct hits all the wayy</p>
<p>toady is also in word smarts(PR) i believe; i remember memorizing this word back then. i swear i wont know the meaning if this was on the test,but i clearly knew it was a negative word.</p>
<p>Toady is also in the blue book. That’s where I know it from.</p>
<p>“The only way to encounter those words is through extensive lifetime reading. Some people think it’s unfair that you can’t easily beat the test through vocab lists…but I personally think that the fact you can’t makes the test score more meaningful.”</p>
<p>Of all the books I have read, ranging from Baroque to Existentialist, never have I come across the word ‘blowhard’.</p>
<p>Can you imagine it popping up in Jane Eyre, though? “It never occurred to me that by acting as a blowhard, Mr. Rochester won my heart. I take delight in his blowhard attitude.”</p>
<p>^ ■■■■■.</p>
<p>Hamlet: “To blowhard or not to blowhard…”
Tale of Two Cities: “It was the best of times; it was the worst of times . . . There was a king with a long face, and a king who was a blowhard.”
Huck Finn: “Well, that dauphin was a reg’lar blowhard, he was.”</p>
<p>Honestly I can say that the best way to prepare for the SAT is to become a proficient reader at a young age. </p>
<p>I only memorized the first 100 words of RR’s list and I manage fine on the SCs. You’re not supposed to rely on your ear for grammar, but years of reading has helped me pick out the error to most writing questions quickly. I don’t always know why there’s an error, but I have a pretty good sense of whether something is grammatically correct by just reading it out loud.</p>
<p>@ jamesford: eh…i don’t think that helped as much on a few of the writing ones. like…I don’t ever start sentences with “That”…but there definitely was one of those that did…</p>
<p>haha i hated this word</p>
<p>Haha, I picked toady… I didn’t know martinet but remembered toady from making fun of it while studying vocabulary.</p>
<p>i made the connection between toady and the story of the princess and the toad…lol</p>
<p>Strooong word.</p>
<p>It was a nice temporary relief from test anxiety :D</p>
<p>Toady and martinet are both in Direct Hits Vol. 1.</p>