Persis Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 Hi everyone. Does anyone know if the test makers themselves have a vocabulary word list? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dustin DeWinn Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 None are on the ETS site that I know of and I checked it pretty thoroughly in search for other resources. They don't refer to any list on their site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crucial BBQ Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 The verbal section has changed. No longer are there any questions relating to analogies and antonyms. The focus is more conceptual now than the exact dictionary definitions of the past. You need to know secondary and perhaps tertiary meanings. Magoosh suggests to use the official SAT study book produced by the College Board to get a good feel for what you need to know. You can just google the word banks since the lists are pretty much all the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tspier2 Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 There are a lot of books out there, but I didn't personally have time to study 2500 words that I had never seen before. Check out Tyrannosaurus Prep to practice commonly used words on the exam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VioletAyame Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 There's no official vocab list, but you can find a lot of similar and helpful lists just by Google. Or you can check out this thread - most resources listed there would have a vocab list ready to use. I found it impossible to memorize more than 1000 words just for the test and learning prefixes and suffixes instead was a better strategy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsharpe269 Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 i used magoosh's app and they have about 300 words that they consider "common words" on the test. I ended up memorizing 250 of them (didnt get to the last 50 in time!) and memorizing those words combinded with doing practice problems, brought my verbal score from 153 to 162. I felt I knew most words on the test, just from those 250 words. thuylisa 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Persis Posted August 8, 2014 Author Share Posted August 8, 2014 Thanks everyone for your response Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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