subject: Learning New SAT Words in Context [print this page] Learning New SAT Words in Context Learning New SAT Words in Context
There is also a long-standing objection to courses and education which are "just memorising a lot of facts". What's becoming clear in the teaching arena is that spending time learning "filled with facts" or context is what we need. The details in context provide us with fresh insight and information and help us retain the meanings of those tough SAT vocabulary words'.
Broad concepts and the skills to access and interpret all those new SAT words list is a very good way of retaining any new information and new SAT words in particular.
Example:
1) No Placating necessary
They are most generous about forgiving a slight, an insult, an injury. Never do they harbour resentment, store up petty grudges, or waste energy or thought on means of revenge or retaliation. How could they? They're much too big-hearted.
The word here is: Magnanimous
2) One-person orchestras
The range of their aptitudes is truly formidable. If they are writers, they have professional facility in poetry fiction, biography, criticism, essays you just mention it and they have done it, and very competently. If they are musicians, they can play the oboe, the bassoon, the French horn, the cello, the piano, the celesta, the xylophone even if you can dig one up. If they are artists, they use oils, water colours, gouache, charcoal, pen and ink they can do anything! Or maybe the range of their abilities cuts across all fields as in the case of Michelangelo, who was an expert sculptor, painter, poet, architect and inventor. In case you're thinking Jack of all trades...' you're wrong they're masters of all traders.
The word here is: versatile
3) No Grumbling
They bear their troubles bravely, never ask for sympathy, never yield to sorrow, never wince at pain. It sounds almost superhuman, but its' true.
The word here is: stoical
4) No Fear
There is not, as the hackneyed phrase has it, a cowardly bone in their bodies. They are strangers to fear, they're audacious, dauntless, contemptuous of danger and hardship.
The word here is : intrepid
The point is that knowing facts and learning in context is one of the best tools for accessing and using other facts. Being SAT knowledgeable is key to being SAT knowledge-able. Individuals who pay conscious attention to cues in the learning environment may produce better results when recalling this information. By doing so, individuals are better able to create a mental image of the original context when trying to recall information in the new SAT testing contextallowing for improved memory retrieval.
