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Developed by test-prep tutors with extensive SAT tutoring experience, the book selects words from official SAT tests and focuses on building recall through associations, senses, emotions, rhymes, and patterns. It also explains how to use word roots as supportive hints, while emphasizing that roots do not replace knowing exact definitions for exam success.","SAT Vocab Capacity  \nPowerful Memory Tricks and Mnemonics to Widen your Lexicon  \nNow with more than 950 mnemonics!  \nBy  \nBrian McElroy  \nand  \nVince Kotchian  \nContents  \nIntroduction  \nWhy This Book Is Different  \nMnemonic Examples  \nWord Root Examples  \nHow To Use This Book  \nThe Mnemonics  \nAppendix: Word Roots  \nIndex  \nAcknowledgments  \nIntroduction  \nBrian McElroy (Harvard,‘02) and Vince Kotchian (Boston College,‘97), two of San Diego's most sought after test-prep tutors,  \nprovide a series of clever, unconventional, and funny memory devices aimed toward helping you to improve your vocabulary and remember words long-term so that you don't ever forget their meanings. Brian and Vince have both taken the SAT and, combined, have been tutoring the test for over 20 years. They have analyzed all available official SAT tests to select the words that appear in this book.  \nThe vocabulary words in this book are best suited for students at a 9th-grade level or above. The words in this edition are specifically targeted toward the SAT exam, but they are also helpful for students who are preparing for other standardized tests such asthe GRE, ACT, ISEE, SSAT, GMAT, LSATor MCAT, or anyone at any age who simply wants to improve his/her knowledge of English vocabulary.  \nDisclaimer: a few of the mnemonics might not be appropriate for kids – some contain  \nadult language or situations. Also, all of the words in this book appear in our other book, GRE Vocab Capacity.  \nWhy This Book Is Different  \nIf you’re studying for the GRE, SAT, or for any other standardized test that measures your vocabulary, you may be feeling a little bit anxious – especially if you’ve taken a practice test and encountered words you didn’t know (or maybe never even saw before)! Whether you have seven days or seven months to prepare for the test, you’re going to want to boost your vocabulary. But it’s not that simple – you’ve got to remember the words you learn. And on many SAT sentence completion questions, getting the right answer comes down to knowing the precise definition of the words.  \nYou could make vocabulary flashcards. You  \ncould look up words you don’t know. You could read a book with lots of big words. But unless you give your brain a way to hold onto the words you learn, it will probably have a harder time remembering them when they appear on the test. That’s the problem with most vocabulary books: the definitions and sentences in the books aren’t especially memorable.  \nThat’s where this book is different. We’ve not only clearly defined the words but we’ve also created sentences designed to help you remember the words through a variety of associations-using mnemonics.  \nMnemonic Examples  \nA mnemonic is just a memory device. 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