Gruber's Word Master for Standardized Tests

The Most Effective Way to Learn the Most Important Vocabulary Words for the SAT, ACT, GRE, and More!

Gary Gruber

• Publisher: Skyhorse
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN: 9781510754256
• Topic: Studienhilfen
• Subtopic: Studienführer

The ultimate guide to improving your vocabulary and all standardized test scores with comprehensive definition reviews and breakdowns, practical language strategies and examples, fifty practice tests and explanations, and much more! Every college-bound student wants the best test scores possible. Fortunately, that just happens to be Dr. Gary Gruber's life's work. For over thirty years, his Gruber Method has taught millions of students to expand their vocabulary and language skills and to improve their scores (for example, increasing SAT scores by as much as 600 points) through adaptive strategies for thinking about test problems as categories, rather than rote memorization of individual answers. Gruber's Word Master for Standardized Tests is the most thorough vocabulary-improvement resource available today. In addition to including more tools and lists than the competition, the guide includes a wide range of useful information to help students hone and sharpen their vocabulary and language skills, such as:

• The most important words used on all standardized tests
• Prefixes and roots that denote the same meaning or feeling
• Commonly confused words
• The 291 most frequenttest words
• 50 vocabulary tests with answers
• Prefixes and Roots that decode more that 200, 000 words on tests
• The Gruber Breakthrough Word Strategies
• The Gruber 2300 Vocabulary Word Review List

So read Gruber's Word Master for Standardized Tests, study its lessons, and watch your test scores increase and your future possibilities expand.

FIFTY VOCABULARY PRACTICE TESTS OF ONE THOUSAND WORDS WHOSE MEANINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW

The 1000 words (in capital letters) in the following Practice Tests have been carefully selected. You should know the meanings of these words since many of them appear frequently in passages such as those you will encounter in standardized tests.

Vocabulary Test 1

1. OBNOXIOUS

(A) dreamy

(B) visible

(C) angry

(D) daring

(E) objectionable

2. VERBATIM

(A) word for word

(B) at will

(C) without fail

(D) in secret

(E) in summary

3. ENTICE

(A) inform

(B) observe

(C) permit

(D) attract

(E) disobey

4. ACCLAIM

(A) discharge

(B) excel

(C) applaud

(D) divide

(E) speed

5. TURBULENCE

(A) treachery

(B) commotion

(C) fear

(D) triumph

(E) overflow

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Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Introduction
• Purpose of This Book
• What This Book Contains
• How to Use This Book Most Effectively
• Vocabulary Building That Is Guaranteed to Raise Your Standardized Test Score
• Diagnostic Vocabulary Test with Answers
• Developing Your Vocabulary Through Prefixes, Roots, and Suffixes That Can Give You the Meaning of Over 200,000 Words
• The Hot Prefixes and Roots That Denote the Same Meaning or Feeling
• Prefix-Root-Suffix Test with Answers (Ten Questions)
• Three Vocabulary Strategies
• Practice Using the Fifty Gruber Prefixes and Roots
• The Most Frequent Positive-Negative Standardized Test Words—Words That Have the Same Meaning; Practice Questions with Answers
• The 2300 Vocabulary Word Review List
• Fifty Vocabulary Practice Tests of One Thousand Words Whose Meanings You Should Know
• A List of Words Appearing More Than Once on the Standardized Test
• Words Commonly Confused