--- Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan Minette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 1:37 PM
> Subject: Re: Girls more confident of success
>
> > >There used to be (and probably still is) a large portion
> > > of the SAT devoted to choosing the definition of a given vocabulary
> word.
> >
> > I just checked sample SAT tests, and they didn't have just a choose the
> > definition section. Half of the sections were analyzing text; the other
> > half were vocabulary related. The vocabulary related were either insert
> a
> > word in a sentence or A:B as C:D, given A, B, C, choose D. I always did
> > this analytically when it wasn't obvious from the first second. When it
> was
> > self evident, the thought process was too fast to analyze.
> >
> > Dan M.
>
> One caveat that I should add. The folks who sell means to "game" the SAT
> tests probably have memorization of the words most likely to be on the test
> as part of their plan. So, in that sense, memorizing a small subset of the
> words in the English language could help. But, there is no real way to sit
> down and memorize 25,000 words to go from a 25k vocabulary to a 50k
> vocabulary.
>
> Indeed, if one looks at the people with the largest vocabularies, one finds
> that they are extensive readers of writers that use a large vocabulary.
> That's the natural way to learn the meaning of words. That's why a survey
> of reading material gives a good measure of one's vocabulary.
Yes Dan but that still doesn't change the fact that mechanicaly the words in
ones vocabulary are still -memorized-. Whether you sat down and rote
memorized them or memorized them over time, based on familiarity. It isn't a
system. You can't learn the system and then be able to discover or "create"
words based on that system which can then be found as valid words in the dictionary.
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