Hot word for sat

xiv, 273 pages ; 23 cm

Reviews the vocabulary words most often found on the SAT and provides practice exercises

Includes index

Using few words or being quiet — Speaking — Feeling superior — Unoriginal, dull, played out — Lessening pain, tension, or conflict — Review exercises — Friendly and agreeable — Quarreling, fighting, and bitter feelings — Generosity in spending money or time and showing concern for others — Cheapness or care with spending money — Problems, puzzlements, and disasters — Review exercises — Harmful or mean — Criticizing, disapproving, or scolding — Lacking interest or emotion — Lacking energy or movement — Humility and obedience — Review exercises — Enthusiasm and passion — Being stubborn — Sound — Praise and respect — More than enough — Review exercises — Food and hunger — Being careful — Being short-lived in time or place — The old or the new — Being sneaky or hardly noticeable — Review exercises — People you will meet on the SAT — Things of little importance or value — Being wise and sharp-minded — Words that sound and/or look alike, but have different meanings — More tricky twins and triplets — Review exercises — Hottest of the hot words (letters A to G) — Hottest of the hot words (letters H to P) — Hottest of the hot words (letters Q to Z) — More hot words — Even more hot words — Review exercises — Words spied on real SATs — Literary terms that are helpful to know — ACT vocabulary : prose fiction and humanities — ACT vocabulary : social science and natural science

Barron’s Hot Words for the SAT features more than 500 words that appear most frequently on the SAT. This edition includes additional lessons on the vocabulary specific to the SAT Reading and SAT Writing and Language tests.

In each lesson, author Linda Carnevale focuses on a thematic word cluster—groups of words that have similar meanings or words used in similar circumstances—which makes it easier for students to learn usage, connotation, and the subtle differences between synonyms.

Also included are:

• Phonetic pronunciation keys for each word
• Memory tips
• Review exercises following every five lessons
• An alphabetical word index

Hot Words for the SAT helps students expand their vocabulary, enrich their essay writing, and facilitate their reading so they can improve their test-taking skills and score higher.

Hot Words for the SAT