Vocab help?

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• Cant Get Right Yearly + Live Member Sage ⭐ 🍌 7Sage Tutor

  September 2016 27902 karma

  "Preponderance" got me the other day. Not sure of any resources for this:/
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  draj0623 Alum Member

  September 2016 916 karma

  I think the 7Sage core curriculum has some vocabulary exercises designed to help you remember certain words (in the form of digital flashcards) that show up on the reading comprehension passages. I developed my own list based on all of the passages I've read. I included words outside of reading comprehension passages used in Economist articles just in case. I think it's generally good practice to keep track of words that have stumped you in the past. Not everyone struggles with the same set of words so I would encourage you to keep track of those words you've encountered that go above and beyond what the core curriculum offers.
• Alex Alum Member ⭐

  September 2016 23929 karma

  @draj0623 Excellent ideas for keeping track of vocab!
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  Cant Get Right Yearly + Live Member Sage ⭐ 🍌 7Sage Tutor

  September 2016 27902 karma

  If you've got a Kindle, it actually keeps a running list of any word you ever look up. So if you read Economist or something and run across a word, you can look it up just by clicking on it, and it automatically adds it to your list. Got to love technology!
• desire2learn Member

  September 2016 1171 karma

  Do they have that same technology for my flip phone? (heheheheheheeeeeeeee)
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  Cant Get Right Yearly + Live Member Sage ⭐ 🍌 7Sage Tutor

  September 2016 27902 karma

  Lol, no @desire2learn , but Snake is legit!
• MaxineSP Alum Member

  September 2016 83 karma

  I wish I had started keeping track sooner! I am testing on Saturday!
  
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  Sami Yearly + Live Member Sage ⭐ 7Sage Tutor

  September 2016 10806 karma

  @"Cant Get Right" said:
  Preponderance" got me the other day.
  

  Preponderance got me the other day too. :DDD lol
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  Ron Swanson Alum Member Inactive ⭐

  September 2016 1650 karma

  I've been thrown off by "pedagogical": related to teaching or teachers and the word "tantamount": equivalent, same as
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  MrSamIam Inactive ⭐

  September 2016 edited September 2016 2086 karma

  I ran into the same problem. It drove me insane. Here's what I did:
  1) Took a few of the 50+ PTs (vocab has changed slightly since the earlier PTs).
  2) BRed them and "finished" with them.
  3) Spent an entire day reading the question stems for all of the sections and skimming the RC passages. I wrote down a list of words that threw me off, looked them up, and kept the list. I'll refer back to the list every once in awhile to remind myself of what the words mean. You can do this for every PT, as it doesn't take up a ton of time.
• Cant Get Right Yearly + Live Member Sage ⭐ 🍌 7Sage Tutor

  September 2016 27902 karma

  @Motivated said:
  Preponderance got me the other day too. :DDD lol
  

  Glad I'm not alone!
• Cant Get Right Yearly + Live Member Sage ⭐ 🍌 7Sage Tutor

  September 2016 27902 karma

  Great idea @MrSamIam . Wish I'd done that:/ I guess at this point I've just got to hope it won't be an issue. If they throw me "preponderance" I'll be ready though, lol.
• tanes256 Alum Member

  September 2016 2573 karma

  Crazy but I bet I know what presuppose means now!! I felt a little slow sfter looking up the definition. It's easy to get bogged down on everything and overthink making everything much harder than necessary. I'm sure that's how it's designed though.
• MrSamIam Inactive ⭐

  September 2016 2086 karma

  @"Cant Get Right" haha you should be fine. Just review the definition of preponderance a few hundred more times. You know, just in case
• Cant Get Right Yearly + Live Member Sage ⭐ 🍌 7Sage Tutor

  September 2016 27902 karma

  Yeah @MrSamIam , I've looked it up in dozens of different dictionaries and hand copied the full definition from each one into my diary, haha.