<p>Hi fellows!</p>
<p>Did anyone trie Ivy League Vocabulary. You can get the free 5000 word list at <a href=“http://www.freevocabulary.com%5B/url%5D”>http://www.freevocabulary.com</a></p>
<p>What do you think should I buy the audio version?</p>
<p>Thanks
Gery</p>
<p>I have the audio version and I can help you download it for free.</p>
<p>Don’t spend your money on this thing. It’s not that good, I tell you. The package contains 8 CDs, 7 CDs with vocabulary and 1 with the so-called “Memory Course”, totallay pathetic, telling you some archaic mnemonics that grate you nerves because it’s the same *hit you’ve been hearing all around.
Anyway, the other 7, are good, the reader is clear, somehow quick actually.
I don’t like the definitions though, they’re very brief, there’s no example sentence so you can hardly use it correctly in your own ones… shortly not the type of vocabulary study a SAT bound shall do.</p>
<p>My advice, leave this thing, and try memorising Sparknotes Top 250 or even top 1000 words. Study them carefully and understand every word. It will be much more efficacious than memorising 5000 words, 4000 of which you don’t fully comprehend.</p>
<p>This list is not so great. It’s like the Barrons 3500 list, but not as well edited.</p>
<p>Here are some of the words it includes as “SAT vocabulary”:</p>
<p>abidance, adjuration, animadvert, animalcule, annalist, bedaub, bibulous, callosity, centiliter, conductible, connubial, contuse, defalcate, deliquesce, dishabille, dissever, duteous, electrotype, foppery, frowzy, galvanism, incipience, insentient, jugglery, lacteal, meliorate, misogamy, monition, percipience, poetaster, polysyllable, prelacy, putrescent, recrudescent, remonstrant, salutatory, seignior, suppressible, termagant, vendible, vincible. . . </p>
<p>A large number of these words I have never seen before (even after getting my degree in English lit from Harvard). Animalcule? Contuse? Poetaster? I can guess the meanings of a lot of the unfamiliar words, but I wouldn’t have my SAT students learn them. It appears to be a compilation of a lot of other large vocabulary lists. . . added to over the years but never really edited down for the SAT.</p>
<p>Learning 5000 words would take you at least 200 hours (if you include time to review). Assuming you know half the words already, you’re still talking about 100 hours. There are a lot better things you can do for your SAT score in 100 hours than attack this particular list.</p>
<p>Instead, get yourself a 600-700 word High Frequency vocab list from a company like Barrons or Princeton Review and learn those.</p>
<p>^^A poetaster, as it turns out, is an “an inferior poet; a writer of indifferent verse.”</p>
<p>An animalcule is a “a minute or microscopic animal, nearly or quite invisible to the naked eye, as an infusorian or rotifer.”</p>
<p>To contuse is “to injure (tissue), esp. without breaking the skin; bruise.” (The noun form of that word, “contusion,” is much more common, but you might not have seen it either.)</p>
<p>These are fun words but not important ones for College Board exams.</p>
<p>The _________ wrote bad poetry about a microscopic animal called a(n)_______.</p>
<p>(A) Sycophant, fungus
(B) Pediatrician, zooplankton
(C) Poetaster, animalcule
(D) Diplomat, negus
(E) Veteran, birch</p>
<p><em>awesome</em>.</p>