SAT Vocabulary Express Word Puzzles Designed

A fun way to build vocabulary and boost SAT scoresWord puzzles are a proven tool for building vocabulary. They nudge the puzzler gently toward shades of meaning, synonym recognition, contextual interpretation, and making educated guesses--all the mental tricks needed to do well on the SAT verbal section. InSAT Vocabulary Express,a top test-prep coach teams up with a leading crossword puzzle author to offer students a fun, effective alternative to standard vocabulary builders.A unique learning tool for breaking the code in the SAT verbal section, this book features: Dozens of crosswords, anagrams, acrostics, cryptograms, and other fun, skill-building puzzles Brainteasers that stimulate vocabulary mastery Tips and techniques for using the puzzles to pump up vocabularies to unprecedented levels--painlessly!

Jacqueline Byrne is a founding partner of Ivy Educational Associates, a test prep and college application consulting firm. She provides private tutoring for the verbal SAT, the SAT II Writing exam and the AP and SAT II Literature exams.

Michael Ashley's crossword puzzles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal He has been a contributor to GAMES Magazine for 25 years.

Acknowledgments

xi

Foreword

xiii

Letter to Students

xv

How to Use This Book to Crack the Code of the New SAT

xvii

SAT Decoder: Increase Your Vocabulary

1

(14)

How Crossword Puzzles Will Help You Raise Your SAT Score

1

(7)

Solving Crossword Puzzles Increases Your Vocabulary

1

(1)

Crossword Puzzles Help You Learn to Play with Words

2

(1)

Crossword Puzzles Change Your Attitude toward the SAT

3

(1)

Crossword Puzzle Instructions

4

(1)

Crossword Puzzles 1--3

5

(3)

How Quotation Puzzles Will Help You Raise Your SAT Score

8

(3)

Quotation Puzzle Instructions

8

(1)

Quotation Puzzles 1 and 2

9

(2)

How Anagram Magic Square Puzzles Will Help You Raise Your SAT Score

11

(3)

Anagram Magic Square Puzzle Instructions

11

(1)

Anagram Magic Square Puzzles 1 and 2

12

(2)

End Note

14

(1)

Fun Quiz

14

(1)

SAT Decoder: Learn to Play with Words

15

(14)

How Hidden Meanings Puzzles Will Increase Your SAT Score

15

(6)

Hidden Meanings Puzzle Instructions

16

(1)

Hidden Meaning Puzzles 1 and 2

17

(4)

How Cryptofamily Puzzles Will Help You Raise Your SAT Score

21

(4)

Solving Cryptofamily Puzzles Increases Your Vocabulary

21

(1)

Cryptofamily Puzzles Create an Association among All the Words in the Family

21

(1)

Cryptofamily Puzzles Help You to Guess Effectively on the SAT

21

(1)

Cryptofamily Puzzle Instructions

22

(1)

Cryptofamily Puzzles 1--4

23

(2)

How Groupie Puzzles Will Help You Raise Your SAT Score

25

(2)

Groupie Puzzle Instructions

25

(1)

Groupie Puzzle 1 and 2

26

(1)

End Note

27

(1)

Fun Quiz

27

(2)

SAT Decoder: Learn to Build and Deconstruct Words

29

(6)

How Word Creation Puzzles, Word within Word Puzzles, and Phobia Puzzles Will Help You Raise Your SAT Score

29

(5)

Word Creation Puzzle Instructions

30

(1)

Word Creation Puzzle 1

30

(1)

Word within Word Puzzle Instructions

31

(1)

Word within Word Puzzles 1--3

31

(1)

Phobia Puzzle Instructions

32

(1)

Phobia Puzzle 1

33

(1)

End Note

34

(1)

Fun Quiz

34

(1)

Puzzles to Increase Vocabulary

35

(22)

Crossword Puzzles 4--6

36

(3)

Anagram Magic Square Puzzles 3--6

39

(9)

Hidden Meanings Puzzles 3--8

48

(7)

End Note

55

(1)

Fun Quiz

55

(2)

Word Connection Puzzles

57

(16)

Crossword Puzzles 7--9

58

(3)

Quotation Puzzles 3--5

61

(3)

Cryptofamily Puzzles 5--16

64

(6)

Groupie Puzzles 3 and 4

70

(1)

End Note

71

(1)

Fun Quiz

71

(2)

Back to the Roots Puzzles

73

(18)

Crossword Puzzles 10--12

74

(3)

Word Creation Puzzles 2--5

77

(4)

Cryptofamily Puzzles 17--28

81

(6)

Phobia Puzzles 2 and 3

87

(2)

End Note

89

(1)

Fun Quiz

89

(2)

Vocabulary Building Puzzles

91

(22)

Quotation Puzzles 6--8

92

(3)

Anagram Magic Square Puzzles 7--9

95

(3)

Crossword Puzzles 13--16

98

(4)

Hidden Meanings Puzzles 9--13

102

(10)

End Note

112

(1)

Fun Quiz

112

(1)

Challenging Word Connection Puzzles

113

(18)

Crossword Puzzles 17--19

114

(3)

Groupie Puzzles 5--13

117

(4)

Cryptofamily Puzzles 29--41

121

(7)

End Note

128

(1)

Fun Quiz

128

(1)

Cryptofamily Puzzle 42

129

(2)

Challenging Puzzles

131

(10)

Crossword Puzzle 20

132

(1)

Anagram Magic Square Puzzles 10 and 11

133

(2)

Words within Word Puzzles 4--9

135

(2)

Quotation Puzzles 9 and 10

137

(2)

Hidden Meanings Puzzle 14

139

(2)

Closing Letter to Students

141

(2)

Answers

143

(34)

The SAT Code Breaker Dictionary

177

(10)

Index

187

(6)

About the Authors

193

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