Vocabulary 1
SAT GENERAL
STRATEGIES
Vocabulary 4
Vocabulary 5
100
Someone who is narrowminded and prejudice. Example: A member of the KKK.
What is a BIGOT?
100
How long does each essay reader spend on your SAT essay?
What is 3 MINUTES?
100
Which section is arranged from easiest to hardest?
What is SENTENCE COMPLETION?
100
A usually prolonged public dispute; an argument
What is CONTROVERSY
100
To dislike or hate
What is ABHOR?
200
Receiving the right to vote.
What is ENFRANCHISE?
200
What are the two categories of questions in the Critical Reading section of the SAT?
What are SENTENCE COMPLETIONS and PASSAGE-BASED QUESTIONS?
200
Passage based reading questions are always arranged in what order?
What is CHRONOLOGICALLY?
200
To represent by drawing, portray
What is DEPICT?
200
Harmful
What is NOXIOUS?
300
This device has been about for the last five years and is slowly replacing books. It is also defined as "starting a fire".
What is KINDLE?
300
What are the four parts of the Writing Section on the SAT?
What are: The Essay, Sentence Improvement, Identifying Sentence Errors, Paragraph Improvement?
300
In sentence completion questions, if you don't know the words, what clues can you use to rule out wrong answer choices.
Varies, (Example, What is POSTIVE/NEGATIVE wording?
300
One who believes that only selfishness motivates human actions
What is CYNIC?
300
Cannot decide what to do
What is AMBIVALENT?
400
A lucky charm
What is a Talisman?
400
Calculating mathematically, it makes sense to guess on SAT questions if you can rule out at least this number of possible answers.
What is IF YOU KNOW MORE THAN ONE ANSWER?
400
What words in a sentence give you clues to a vocabulary word's meaning?
What are COMPASS WORDS?
400
Fake; not genuine
What is COUNTERFEIT?
400
Getting paid for work completed
What is REMUNERATION?
500
Trying to decide between two or more objects
What is DISCERN?
500
How much does the essay count toward your SAT Writing score?
What is 30%?
500
What is one strategy which Princeton Review recommends you use to attack longer passage-based reading questions?
Varies: B-2-1-1-F (Blurb, first two sentences in first paragraph, first in each of the following sentences plus last sentence), or Read passage you like better first
500
To delay or get in the way
What is HAMPER?
500
To support or urge by argument, especially publicly
What is ADVOCATE?