Hot Words for the SAT I

by Linda Carnevale

Book Overview

This entirely new book takes it title from an earlier Barron's vocabulary builder and SAT test preparation book. Author Linda Carnevale presents hundreds of new words especially focused to prepare... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764118757
• ISBN13: 9780764118753
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Barron's Educational Series
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Great concept, useful tool

I am a mom with a 10 year old who is begging to study SAT words. (Don't ask why...she just really wants to learn them) I saw this book being used by the 10th graders at the local private school and I was very impressed. The organization of words into groups with similar meanings is fabulous. It really helps you to talk about those "shades of meaning" that you get with different word choices. Of course, these are not the most difficult of the SAT words, but I think it is perfect for the average to above average student. The highly gifted child who is taking the SAT as a senior should probably know the majority of these words already, but for most students I think it is perfect. HERE IS THE TRUE SECRET to the vocab section. Go through the entire 10 test prep book and underline each and every word that you do not know. (The college board book with the cheap grey paper, costs about 20 bucks). Then make 3x5 cards. By the time you have gone through all 10 sample tests, you will know all the vocab you need to know. This is how my 12 year old got a 750 on the verbal last year.

Outstanding Vocabulary Builder

I am a teacher of college bound sophomores and juniors. This book challenges them to understand how words can simultaneously have similarities and differences in meaning. Hot Words is novel in its approach of clustering words with similar meaning. I often hear my students say that this format helps them remember more words and I see the results in their writing. If you use this book to draw subtleties out of words with similar meanings it becomes a more challenging exercise but one worth the effort!

Laudatory!

This book helped me learn the words necessary to achieve a noteworthy score on the SAT. The book is broken up into 35 lessons. Each lesson revolves around a theme to which all of the listed words relate to. This helps the reader remember the words easier.At first, I was skeptical. This book seemed like a bunch of words lists to me. But the grouping of similar words actually helped me remember more words. Looking over the book, there are only about 10 I don't know of the 350+ words.I would recommend this book to those who wish to improve their verbal SAT score.P.S.-If you didn't know what laudatory meant, it's in the book.

Great book for student writers

This book expands vocabulary like no other. It is great for students who are wishing to expand their vocabulary to become better writers. It list words by category so they are easy to find. A must have for middle and High schoolers!

SAT Verbal Breakthrough

This book is a must buy!!! I've been an SAT instructor for a long time and this is the best book for the verbal section! This will boost your vocab like nothing else!!! There are three sentences made for each vocab word so you "really" understand the meaning of each word. It's not just a list of words and their definitions and you have to memorize it. Words being used in sentences really aid the memory and will totally boost your scores on the SAT!!! I highly recommend it. (...)