What is the most efficient way to study SAT vocabulary?

Answer 1

I don't know if it is the most efficient, but probably the most enjoyable way with the longest retention is to actually read books that stretch your own vocabulary. Thus, you are expanding your mind on many different levels and can recall the context of the word as you were reading. Don't forget to lookup the words you don't know. Also, (this is huge) pay attention to the etymology of the word that you lookup (where the word came from) because this will give you a huge boost to understand the relationships with words and give you hints on other words you may not have studied. Also a good reason why latin is a good language to study in HS.

For short term cramming (without long term retention) I guess you could search for lists of SAT vocab words and read those. This sounds dreadfully boring to me though.

Answer 2

Read. Anything. Everything. If you don't know a word, look it up in the dictionary. If the dictionary definition gives you a word or term you don't know, look it up. They're all connected to something else.

Answer 3

study the theroersaurs