Download the vocabularly quiz I made today. What’s the secret to SAT success in the vocabulary section of the SAT? Lots and lots of memorization. In the SAT training class that Taurus is organizing next month, the kids will have to memorize three thousand SAT words. For us native speakers, most of them are pretty obvious. Of those that are new even for jaded English readers, half are really nice to learn (sybarite, n.: a lover of luxury), while half make me scratch my head and wonder why anyone would need to know that particular word (codicil, n.: a supplement to a will). I’m not sure what differentiates exciting new words versus useless words, nor am I sure what differentiates an SAT word from a normal word.