SAT Vocabulary for Dummies

I bought this for my daughter who is beginning her "stressful" junior year with the SAT's looming ahead. This book is great. It includes helpful definitions of prefixes, roots and suffixes to teach the student to "disect" a word they may not be able to define. Vocab words are grouped together to make memorization easier. Example: "Look Who's Talking, Words about Speaking". I highly recommend this book.

As an SAT tutor, I own nearly all SAT books, especially those that aim to boost vocabulary. This book is particularly useful for students who come into the test with only average or below average vocabulary. It tries to be cute or at least not intimidating, and the words are just right. If I could make one change to this book, I would put it into a smaller book to make it easier to transport and use during free moments, like long bus rides, substitute teachers, and while waiting for your favorite show to come on.

this is by far the best book that i have used to help improve my vocabulary. the method of grouping words is extremely effective and it was surprisingly fun to learn from this book. The stories are interesting and entertaining, compared to the ones in other books. The author provides pronunciation of the words, as well as ways to use them in sentences. The exercises following each chapter are very similar to the sentence completion questions on the actual SAT. After studying with this book, even though i skipped most of the gray boxes (that contain more advanced words), i was able to answer over 90% of the vocabulary questions on every practice SAT. In addition, it aided me tremendously on the critical reading sections as well. I am extremely glad that I purchased this book!

This is a good book for people getting ready to take the SAT and don't do well on vocabulary