Learning and Understanding Words

Learning methods

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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.