SSAT & ISEE (Upper) Vocabulary II

This is the second volume of the bestselling SSAT & ISEE (Upper) Vocabulary book, written due to strong demand from students, teachers, and parents. Helping You Learn Hundreds of Words Quickly with: Fun Cartoons Synonyms/Antonyms Sentences for EACH Word The Key to Improving Memory To improve your memory, you must increase the number and variety of your mental associations. When learning new words, ensure they are in context. It is far easier to remember a picture than an abstract concept. To remember an abstract word, turn it into a picture. It’s easier to visualise a sentence rather than a word in isolation. Five Principles to Make Words Stick OUT OF PROPORTION Distort size and shape in your images. Imagine things much larger than normal or microscopically small. SUBSTITUTION Replace an expected item with something unusual. Example: Footballers kicking a television instead of a football. EXAGGERATION Picture a huge quantity of something to reinforce recall. MOVEMENT Action and movement make images more memorable. HUMOUR The funnier, more absurd, or zany the image, the easier it is to remember. Applying multiple combinations of these five principles when forming your images will help make your mental associations truly outstanding and memorable. At first, you may need to consciously apply these principles to make your images sufficiently exaggerated. However, with practice, this process will become natural and automatic. Unique Features of This Book All the hard work is done for you! Over 200 words converted into pictures using the principles above. Focus on words likely to appear in the SSAT & ISEE (Upper) exams. Synonyms, antonyms, and example sentences for EACH word. Over 1,500 high-frequency SSAT/ISEE words covered in total!