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Columbia 1000 Words You Must Know for PSAT/NMSQT: Book One with Answers (Volume 1)
Columbia 1000 Words You Must Know for PSAT/NMSQT Book One with Answers - Volume 1 Author:Richard Lee Ph.D. To the Student Columbia 1000 Words You Must Know for PSAT/NMSQT presents 1000 most frequently tested words for PSAT/NMSQT. You will find 100 word-building lessons (Books 1 - 3) with Memory Tips, New Words in rhyming groups, Definitions, Sample Sentences, Word Families, Practice Tests in Sentence Completion, Definition Matching, and Writing Sente... more »nces with Answer Key in each lesson to help you memorize these words quickly and easily to raise your test score on the PSAT/NMSQT. Columbia 1000 Words You Must Know for PSAT/NMSQT is designed to help you memorize new words using our unique memory method. Look at the following example and see how you can memorize the word ?aberration? easily: ABERRATION n. departure from what is right or true rhyming sound ?ation 1. MEMORY TIPS: Memorizing words with the help of Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes. ion condition or action; as aberration, ration, inflation, temptation, abbreviation 2. NEW WORDS: New Words are arranged in rhyming groups for easy memory. aberration, ration, inflation, temptation, abbreviation 3. SAMPLE SENTENCES: Sample Sentences are to help you memorize words in context. This complexity is not an aberration or something to be wished away, it is the new reality. 4. SENTENCE COMPLETION: is designed to help you memorize words through tests. The patient?s only _____________ was a temporary lapse of memory.(aberration) 5. DEFINITION MATCHING: is designed to help you memorize words through repetition. departure from what is right or true _________________________ (aberration) As you can see from the above, the word ?aberration? is repeated five times in this lesson; therefore, repeated reinforcement of the word helps you memorize it so unconsciously that you will be able to remember it forever. Human memory, like the unconscious, is structured like a language. Once you have memorized a word, it will become part of yourself. Whenever you need it, it will come to your mind just like flowers blooming in the spring: it is natural. Columbia 1000 Words You Must Know for PSAT/NMSQT is both a self-help book and a textbook for classroom use. It is designed to teach you how to memorize words easily and quickly. If you spend about 25 minutes a day on these vocabulary building lessons, it will absolutely help you expand your vocabulary, build up your word power, and raise your test score on the PSAT/NMSQT.« less