SAT Vocab 01/02

O Verdun! 8 words from the first multiple choice practice of Second Semester
calamitous; innocuous; cataclysmic; dicomfiting; preponderance; epitome; garish; lionize

Here's my Cindy Lauper example -- can you work out which word this photo represents?

Dear Child: 8 words from the second multiple choice practice of Second Semester, Sample Exam 2, passage 2: precocious, pompous, supercilious, ineptitude, conciliatory, stoic, intimation, duped

If you are looking for the lists of "most frequently used SAT words," A) I would be suspicious of any such list, but it wouldn't hurt to study it, and B), here are some handy links:
100 Most Common SAT words
A list from Scribl
from The Washington Post

The MOST effective way to acquire a strong vocabulary is to read voraciously, deeply (go over your own head), and often. Readers have better vocabularies than non-readers, period; hours spent studying lists may be better spent reading because reading helps build up your contextual skills. Here's an article with ten tips for a better vocabulary. Looking at these tips, do you see why we draw the graphic organizer to make as many associations (positive, negative, visual, exemplar) as possible??

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