If your New Year's resolution included improving your vocabulary; if you turn to "Improve your Word Power" when you pick up that old Readers' Digest at the doctor's office or you'd like to dazzle them with your diction, Rock the SAT is for you. Or, if you are in its intended audience and about to take the SAT exam, it can boost your score on the vocabulary section, thereby greasing the skids to get you into your chosen center of academe.
Silence, Reticence:
You're so
impertinent
You're so impudent
You talk back all of
the time
Stupefied
It dulls my senses
It numbs my state of
mind
Where does that get
me now
A weak, futile voice
in the crowd
Silence, reticence
Be taciturn
Strive to be laconic
to the point
Where you don't
speak
You and me
communicate
Strictly by telepathy
Dont speak
You act belligerent
Savage and truculent
Why must you fight
with me
Don't you know
You're just a
charlatan
You're not what you
pretend to be
Where does that get
you now
Vilified, abused,
denounced by the crowd
Silence, reticence
Be taciturn
Strive to be laconic
to the point
Where you don't
speak
You and me
communicate
Strictly by telepathy
Don't speak
Be serene
Peaceful to the
extreme
Embrace tranquility
Embrace tranquility
I'm just a novice
A neophyte
I'm a beginner, this is
all so new
Let me be
Your sanctuary
Let me shelter you
Silence, reticence
Speak easy
Be taciturn
Strive to be laconic
to the point
Where you don't
speak
You and me
communicate
Strictly by telepathy
Don't speak
Don't speak...
Rock the SAT is a series of songs using big words whose meanings are obvious based on their context in the song. Each of the thirteen songs contains approximately twenty popular SAT vocabulary words. The CD is accompanied by a workbook, in case you can't figure out what the words mean from the songs, and in case you don't know how to find dictionary.com on your computer.
Listen to the above track here.
[Via NPR]
[Illustration from Dinosaur Comics]
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