<p>I’ve been reading some of Richard Dawkins’ books and found them to contain a lot of advance vocabulary. But I was wondering if that type of vocabulary would be helpful on the SAT. I mean a lot of the words are scientific terms, so I’m not sure how much relevance there is.</p>
<p>His eloquent prose inconsolidated with adorned terms is just a pleasure to read.</p>
<p>I hate seeing people read just to learn SAT words. This is a mutilation of the purpose of reading,</p>
<p>I’m not reading for the SAT. If I was just trying to increase my vocabulary I’d memorize word lists. I just wondered if a side-benefit would be a vocabulary increase.</p>
<p>Do you mean unconsolidated?</p>
<p>There’s nothing wrong with reading primarily to increase your vocab.</p>
<p>Haha, awesome, i’m reading God Delusion right now, tons of good vocab. Be sure to read with a dictionary or sitting next to a comp to look up all the words you don’t know. And yes, reading is the primary way to improve your vocab, regardless of whether it’ll come up on the SAT or not.
But yeah, his books are full of pretty hard words, and the content is great.</p>
<p>I couldn’t agree more! :)</p>
<p>Great Expectations has lots of SAT vocabulary too, and good writing to boot! 
I had fun with it.</p>