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Learning and Understanding Words
Learning methods
Computer?!
Flashcards
Below 1000 words FLASHCARDSMore ambitious THROW THEM AWAY, or APPLY FOR SOME FIRST WORDS
Root, Prefix, Suffix
Root: part of the word that contains the basic meaning
E.g: “Cred” = believe “credible” = believable
Prefix: added in the front of the word/word root to change its
meanings.
E.g: “in-” = not “incredible” = not believable
Suffix: added in the end of the word/word root to form a new
word or show the function of a word
E.g: “-bility” denotes noun; “-ble” denotes adj
“credibility” is the noun form of “credible”
Mnemonics
Mnemonics: a memory/ a learning aid. Link our senses
together (sounds, images, touching…)
E.g:
Aloof (uh-LOOF) adj – not friendly, cold
and distant
Sound: a roof
Picture: a person on the roof of a house
refusing to even look at the people below.
He has completely removed himself from
the group.
Word feeling
How do you feel a word?Table
Trangression
Surprising
Outlandish
Transcendent
Sentimental
Cloying
Triffling
Transient
Aloof
Feeling Speed
How fast should I respond?Instantaneously
How can I do that?Make simple feeling!
Review
Create a Feeling
transgression: N. violation of law, sin. Although Widow Douglass was
willing to overlook Huck’s transgressions, Miss Walton refused to forgive
and forget.
transient: ADJ. momentary, temporary; staying for a short time. Lexy’s joy
for finding the perfect Christmas gift for Phil was transient; she still had to
find presents for the counsins and Uncle Bob. Located near the airport,
this hotel caters a transient trade.
triffling: ADJ. trivial, unimportant. Why bother goint to see a doctor for
such a triffling, everyday cold.
How to review?
Group of 7-8
Review from beginning before learning new group
Review everyday for several consecutive days (7 days)
Review by checking other wordlists
Wordlists
500 keywords for the SAT – Charles Gulotta
The hit parade (250 words) – Cracking the SAT (Princeton Review)
Word Smart 1 & 2 (800 words each) – Adam Robinson
Sparknotes 1000 SAT words
Sparknotes 250 most difficult words
McGraw-Hill’s SAT (2000 words)
Grubber’s Complete SAT guide (3400 words)
Barron’s How to perpare for the SAT (3500 words)
Direct Hits Core Vocabulary of SAT volume 1&2 (250 words each)
Memory Experiment
Sound Distinction
I EE
Did Deed
Live Leave
Lip Leap
Pick Peak
Dip Deep
E AE
Beg Bag
Lend Land
Met Mad
Men Man
Dead Dad
U U:
Bush Mood
Rook Coo
Wood Noon
Should Soon
Cook Zoo
Sound
Instantaneously In-stan-TAN-eous-ly
Transient TRAN-sient
Transgression Trans-GRES-sion
Complicate COM-pli-cate
Pronunciation Pro-nun-ciA-tion
Put in All Together
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Julian was living in a sooty apartment next to an iron foundry in Memphis when he received a letter
announcing that his great-grandfather’s estate had finally been cleared up. He stood in the doorway of his
peeling duplex, his hands shaking as he read the terms. Most of the property had been sold off to satisfy
liens and lawyers’ fees, but the old country house and six acres remained, along with twenty-eight
thousand dollars. Julian was a thin man of sixty-three, balding, a typewriter repairman who worked out of
his spare bedroom and kept to himself. The one time he’d seen the grand old home was when he was
eight, riding past it on a gravel road with his mother, back when she could afford a car. The mansion was
surrounded on three sides by rows of cracked Doric pillars, its second-floor gallery missing many
balusters, its windows patched with cardboard. Back then, it had been occupied by a glowering family of
squatters who’d slouched on the porches and stared after his mother’s black Ford as it crawled past the
fence. For all he knew, they were still there.
He went inside, out of the late-June heat, and sat in a duct-taped recliner to reread the terms of his good
fortune. The only extra money he’d ever had was a hundred-dollar win on a scratch-off ticket. Before his
mother died, he’d spent two years at a tiny local college and considered himself at least wealthy in
knowledge, more so than the shopkeepers and records clerks he dealt with. Normally, he disparaged
people who owned large houses, yet deep in his heart he’d stored the memory of the old mansion, the
only grand thing in his family’s history. It had shamed him to long for the house, and now he owned it.