I bought this book for my son, who will be going to Ninth Grade to help build his vocabulary. Not only is this book helping to build my childs vocabulary but how it can be used in a sentence. The book is "Great" because of its content. It defines the word, give one an idea how it should be pronounced, and use a cartoon to link it in a sentence. Further, use the word to construct threee sentences. Because of these examples,...
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Vocabulary Cartoons II contains 290 key words presented through cartoons. Each word contains a "link" word which is intended to serve as a mnemonic device, helping you to associate the new word to the word that you may be more familiar with. A good deal of the "link" words rhyme with the "key" word. To make the association even easier, the authors have provided a phrase which is easy to remember as in "We LAMENT that...
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It's funny. I got a 770/800 on my verbal SAT. My friends can't believe I did it by studying a book comprised of funny little cartoons and rhymes. It sounds funny, but it works!Studying from a gigantic book of thousands of vocab words are boring and scary. This book however, actually makes it fun! I didn't think useless vocab which is tested on the SAT could be fun to learn, but I was wrong.Great book. If you are studying for...
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I'm 15 this year, and I actually enjoy this book. Believe me, I've tried for a while to find a good vocab book. "1100 words you need to know" seriously sux, and the rest of them are pretty bad too. The only other good one is a very small section in "Up your score". But anyway, this book is a page per word with a huge picture in the middle and a few sentences with the word in it at the bottom. Then once in a while there's a...
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Everyone know how crucial a good SAT score can be for a student to get into the college of their choice. More and more emphasis is placed on it annually. And as a rule, for most students it is the verbal portion that does them in.Well, Vocabulary Cartoons II to the rescue! The often silly cartoons give you just the memory peg you will need to remember words that you are sure to see on the SAT exam. I reccomend this...
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