Difficult (not everyday language) words on the LSAT.

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• Andrew Alterio Alum Member

  November 2018 394 karma

  https://7sage.com/lesson/lsat-vocabulary-flashcards/
  Personally, I haven't found that I answered a problem incorrectly because of a unknown word. Usually, the context will provide enough info to answer the problem correctly.
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  BinghamtonDave Alum Member ⭐ 🍌🍌

  November 2018 8689 karma

  https://7sage.com/lesson/lsat-vocabulary-flashcards/

  I looked the words up and committed them to memory. That is what really helped me. Also, reading helped me a ton, any time I didn't know what a word was, I would look it up and read article's and blurbs containing the word. For instance, "ephemeral"; there is a current SCOTUS case that deals with ephemeral ponds of a certain frog:
  http://www.scotusblog.com/2018/10/argument-analysis-justices-jostle-over-endangered-frogs-critical-habitat/
  So, I tried to engage with the words.

  When faced with a new question that contains a difficult or uncommon word we can try to use context clues, the surrounding words to deduce an approximate definition of the word. Ultimately, we want to keep building and building a wider net of the words used multiple times, for instance the LSAT seems to like the word "iconoclastic" or "novel." Knowing these words' definition is a huge help. But every once in a while, we might have to "wing" it. I believe ultimately for me personally, I could mitigate the difficulty of the words I wasn't familiar with, the difficult part was whole concepts I was not familiar with and didn't even know enough to imagine: for instance concepts on RC passages that dealt with art. These I later had to look up.

  David
• adrianmicciollo Member

  November 2018 26 karma

  thanks for the advice guys
• Logic Gainz Alum Member ⭐

  November 2018 700 karma

  I found reading dense books while studying helped. I've gotten a couple questions wrong in RC because I didn't know the definition of a word, but it rarely happens.