Master SAT Vocabulary in Less Time

You can stop drilling flashcards until your eyes bleed. This book teaches you the simple, intuitive strategy of using context clues to answer SAT vocabulary questions without memorizing a single definition. Learn to trust your logic, spot the hidden traps, and walk into the test with total confidence.

I remember sitting on my bedroom floor surrounded by hundreds of index cards. They were everywhere. I had piles for words I knew and even bigger piles for words I kept forgetting. My hand was cramping from writing definitions over and over again. It felt like I was trying to empty the ocean with a spoon. I would look at a word like obdurate and flip the card and see stubborn. Then five minutes later I would see obdurate again and my mind would go completely blank. The stress was eating me alive.

I had this heavy feeling in my chest every time I thought about the test. Everyone told me that the only way to get a good score was to learn these words. My teacher handed us a list of three thousand common SAT words and wished us luck. I looked at that list and wanted to cry. I was seventeen years old and I had other things to do. I had homework and sports and friends and I was supposed to spend every waking moment memorizing a dictionary. It felt impossible. I spent weeks doing this. I would take the cards on the bus. I would […]