How do I study for the vocabulary on the SAT?
January 2nd, 2010 | 
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Hi and welcome to my blog,
I opened this blog to help anyone who is preparing for his SAT.
I remember myself when I started - I was so lost and in such a panic.
Luckily I got this great SAT guide that helped me a lot . So study hard and good luck!
In the filling in the blank section for sentences, some of the words are really hard, and I’ve never even seen them before! How should I study for that? Read the dictionary!? And I have an SAT study guide, by the way. 
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buy SparkNotes vocabulary flash cards. They helped me a lot.
go to number2.com, its free and its an online sat guide, it even have an endless vocab builder
ok..yeah..i agree there are some pretty hard words out there hehe. so…what im doing now..is that i go on dictionary.com and get the word of the day..its like..a word a day..not that easy..sometimes difficult..and just learn them. im actually also taking a sat prep class..and there is like..huge vocab words on there..but some are easy..some i already know..so..my advice for that part..is that go through your sat study guide..and make sure you understand some of the common words they use that are pretty difficult to comprehend..like in the passages or in the vocab section. hopes this..kinda..helped hehe. good luck!
Great question, and I’ll tell you something: even those who do really well on this section eventually forget a lot of the words. The key for you is to retain this knowledge just enough time so you perform well. But how do you do this?
1. Get your hands on as many books on SAT vocabulary as you can. Spark Notes is good. But if you go to a Barnes and Noble or Borders book store, just look through the "reference" or "testing" sections. There are many books. One very good one published by Kaplan underlines "SAT level" words in Mary Shelley’s "Frankenstein". Apparently her novel has tons of these words. What’s great about this is that you actually see the words being used in an actual context, and not just in a Word:Definition format. Of course, you might not have the time to read a whole novel.
What I recommend is that you:
1. Read the words, memorizing their definitions (this is something you need to do anyway).
2. Use the words in a context.
3. See the words used in a context.
As far as #2, do like you do in school: write out a sentence that uses the word. For #3, the novel technique may help, as well as certain study guides that show the word used ina sentence. The only problem with just reading the sentence alone is that it doesn’t give you alot of context to go by. But if you read these words in a longer context, you end up having less time. So it’s time quantity versus study quality.
No matter what technique you do, the key is repetition. The more you use the words in proper context, the more likely they will be committed to memory. Try also to ask yourself antonyms as well as synonyms to the word. This will force your brain to put the words in the right "columns" and you can also associate them with their "cousins". After all, language in large measure is very repetitive.