One Man's Quest to Find the Unknown WordsHow many words could a
student have added to his or her high-school vocabulary over the
course of a typical college career? In strategic preparation for
the MCAT-the Medical College Admission Test-the author undertook as
a college freshman to record and define every unknown word that he
encountered. Over the next three years he recorded and learned
roughly 700 words, resulting in his scoring in the 99th percentile
on the MCAT's vocabulary section: he knew every word. Two years and
another 300 words later, he scored in the 99th percentile on the
GRE (the Graduate Record Examination), again knowing every word in
the test. In the ensuing years, he has added an additional 300
words. These are the right words-no jargon, no technical terms, no
quaint or whimsical words, no high-school words. All of them are in
current usage by modern writers.Any college student preparing for a
graduate-school exam - the MCAT, LSAT, GRE, or GMAT - will benefit
from reading through these more than 1300 words, which are indexed
and arranged in order from the more common to the more obscure. By
reading through and memorizing the first half of these, the student
will have learned the more common of the big words, and might whet
his or her appetite for learning the more obscure of them in the
second half. The high-school student who already has acquired an
advanced vocabulary might benefit also in preparation for the SAT
and ACT tests, as the college vocabulary presented here comprises
the words that separate the average high-school vocabulary from the
extraordinary.
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