Authors: Jodi Fodor
ISBN-13: 9781605500256, ISBN-10: 1605500259
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Adams Media Corporation
Date Published: July 2009
Edition: Original
Jodi Fodor grew up in a family where wordplay was constant and energetic. She earned her bachelor's degree in psychology from Michigan State University and her MFA in creative writing from California State University, Long Beach. She trained with and taught for the Institute of Reading Development in Berkeley, California, a supplemental education program that teaches 100,000 students each year in classes all around the United States. For fourteen years, she has been helping kids improve their reading and writing skills, to build their vocabularies and to prepare for standardized tests.
'The number one way to improve your score on the SAT is by improving your vocabulary. Nothing is more important.' 'Princeton Review
Perspicacious. Ubiquitous. Garrulous. Improvident. Solvent. Benevolent.
These are the sorts of words that may befuddle you when you take the SAT. What you need is a book that makes these words fun to learn and easy to remember-and this one does just that. This clever, cogent little volume uses funny, edgy, and even rude rhymes to help you learn-and remember!?more than 500 vocabulary words most commonly found on SAT exams.Acquiesce
(verb) 'ACK-wee-ess'
Do you always give in?
Then you acquiesce.
You never say no;
It's just yes ' yes ' yesyes.
Careful with that
Don't become a doormat.
Acquiescing is fine.
But not all the time.
Remember this:
To acquiesce is to say yes.
From abase to zenith, this book is all students need to make the grade!