SAT Reading Strategies - Dumb Summaries

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

Dumb Summaries

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

Connotation

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

Excoriate

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

Refute

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

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').