SAT Reading Strategies - Dumb Summaries

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Flashcards covering the main strategies for the new digital SAT, focusing on the reading section and the 'dumb summaries' strategy.

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Dumb Summaries

Simplifying passages, answer choices, or questions by removing details to focus on essential ideas, primarily through connotations.

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Connotation

The emotional association or feeling that a word evokes (positive, negative, or neutral).

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Excoriate

To severely criticize. The press excoriated the statue of Washington due to its inappropriate depiction.

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Refute

To prove wrong (an argument rather than a work of art). It is related to connotation.

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Transition Words

Words that connect ideas in sentences. Can be simplified to basic versions (e.g., 'accordingly' is like 'so,' 'likewise' is like 'and/also,' 'however' is like 'but').