College Entrance Vocabulary
Words and their neighbours
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- Categories
- 23
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What is in this deck
With this deck you learn a hundred words that recur on college entrance tests, each with the near-synonym it is confused with.
A vocabulary list teaches a hundred definitions. What a test actually asks is which of five near-synonyms fits this sentence, and that is a different skill.
103 words, each with the neighbour it is confused with. Ingenuous against ingenious. Credible against credulous. Impartial against disinterested. Complacent against complaisant. The definition is on the front of the card and the distinction is on the back, because the distinction is the part that is tested.
Not a question bank. The College Board and ACT own their questions; nobody owns the meaning of a word. Every card here was written from the language itself.
The categories decide what comes up: start with “Words about agreement” alone and add the rest when you are ready.
What you learn
- A hundred words that recur on entrance tests
- The neighbour each one is confused with
- Words about judgement, character, speech and measure
- Where a word reversed its meaning, and when
- Enough to read a dense passage without stopping
The categories
23 categories sort the 103 cards. You can filter by category and take on what is due right now.
- Words about agreement
- Words about argument
- Words about change
- Words about character
- Words about clarity
- Words about comparison
- Words about conflict
- Words about criticism
- Words about feeling
- Words about harm
- Words about joining
- Words about judgement
- Words about knowledge
- Words about manner
- Words about measure
- Words about praise
- Words about secrecy
- Words about sound
- Words about speech
- Words about support
- Words about time
- Words about truth
- Words about variety
What you get
Here are three of the 103 cards you get when you buy the deck.
Question
What does aberration mean?
Answer
A departure from what is normal.
Note
An aberration is a one-off. A pattern of them is no longer an aberration.
Question
What does acquiesce mean?
Answer
To accept reluctantly without protest.
Note
To acquiesce is to stop objecting, not to agree.
Question
What does alacrity mean?
Answer
Cheerful readiness.
Note
Doing something with alacrity means doing it promptly and gladly.
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How many cards are in College Entrance Vocabulary?
103 cards, sorted into 23 categories.
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