Bryan Burchers - Vocabulary Cartoons, SAT Word Power: Learn Hundreds of SAT Words with Easy Memory Techniques

SAT Word Power

Learn Hundreds of SAT Words

Fast with Easy Memory Techniques

Revised & Updated Edition

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Fourth Edition

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Manufactured in the United States of America.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 96-96399

ISBN: 978-0-9652422-3-3

Illustrations: Joseph Toth, Lee Horton, David Horton, Luke Wilson, & John Telford

Cover Design: Bryan Burchers

Setup & Typography: Bryan Burchers & Sam Burchers III

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Burchers, Sam

Vocabutoons : Vocabulary Cartoons

Sam Burchers, Jr., Sam Burchers, III & Bryan Burchers

p. cm.

Includes index.

ISBN 978-0-9652422-3-3

Vocabulary Cartoons, SAT Word Power, 2nd Edition

96-96399

New Monic Books

P.O. Box 511314

Punta Gorda, FL 33951

(941) 575-6669

www.vocabularycartoons.com

Our gratitude to the following educators in Southwest Florida who had the foresight and initiative to introduce mnemonic cartoon test programs in their schools and classrooms. It was through their efforts that vocabulary cartoons have been proven to be a dynamic new technique in building a more educated vocabulary:

Our special thanks to staff artists Joe Toth, Gene Ostmark, Bryan Burchers, Lee Horton and Dave Horton, and contributing artists Luke Wilson and John Telford. Their collective talents provided the essential quality of zany humor and outrageous bizarreness that make cartoon mnemonics memorable.

Welcome to the world of humorous cartoons that introduce proven mnemonic memory techniques into the vocabulary learning experience.

A mnemonic is a device that helps you remember something by associating what you are trying to remember with something you already know. Memory experts agree that mnemonics are the surest, fastest, and easiest way to remember names places, events, words and anything else you want to remember.

If you are like most people, you want to learn words as efficiently and as rapidly as possible. With Vocabulary Cartoons it is possible to learn hundreds of new words over a single weekendits that easy!

In any public library there are numerous books on memory techniques. Without exception, experts speak of the science of mnemonics as one of the most important and basic tools of memory.

For example, U.S. Marines are taught a mnemonic based on the letters PPPFP, which means Prior Planning Prevents Faulty Performance.

Rhymes and poems also serve as mnemonic devises. Perhaps the most common childhood mnemonic for remembering a historical date is that old limerick, Columbus sailed the ocean blue in fourteen hundred and ninety two. Remember that one? Once you have learned it, how can you forget it?

In addition to auditory mnemonics, there are visual mnemonics, where you create in your minds eye a mental image of whatever it is you wish to remember.

In grade school, my son, Bryan, had trouble remembering the definition of the word ALOOF.

What does ALOOF rhyme with? I asked him.

ROOF, he replied.

Whats on the ROOF?

Our cat, Snowball, he said.

I suggested Bryan make a mental picture with both words in it. We came up with this one: Snowball was so ALOOF, when guests came she hid on the ROOF.

Thereafter, whenever Bryan heard the word ALOOF, he would think of ROOF, then in turn visualize his cat, Snowball, hiding on the ROOF because Snowball was ALOOF.

This procedure is what the experts in memory mnemonics, such as Harry Lorayne in his book, The Page-a-Minute Book, recommend. Take a word you wish to learn, link it to a word, or group of words, you already know. Now visualize a mental picture of a scene in which both words play an integral part. Make the mental picture as bizarre and ridiculous as you like. Bizarre events have an impact that stimulates the memory. Commonplace events do not.

Most teachers have favorite mnemonics they pass along to their students. However, the occasional mnemonics introduced in classrooms have been used randomly and are rarely part of formal curriculum.

Now for the first time ever, we are introducing an entire book of mnemonics.

Practically all memory books ask the reader to create his or her own visual mnemonic images. With many simple words, such as our example, aloof, it is reasonably easy to do. However, in the case of abstract words, mnemonic images can be very difficult to create.

For example, try to visualize mental picture for the word triumvirate and peregrination. Anything come to mind? Probably not.

Therein lies the fallacy of visual mnemonics you are asked to conjure up yourself. The time element is devastating. You could spend hours creating appropriate visualizations for only a dozen words. The net result is most students give up on the entire mnemonic process.

Not so with Vocabulary Cartoons, where we provide word associations and visual images that make study easy and entertaining. You will be amazed at the magic of these specialized cartoons as your vocabulary grows and grows almost effortlessly.

Years from now, whenever you hear a word from this book, odds are the cartoon of that word will appear in your minds eye in a flash. That is how indelible and unforgettable good mnemonics can be.

Vocabulary Cartoons are designed for anyone wishing to build a stronger vocabulary. However, they are particularly recommended for students studying for Pre-Scholastic Aptitude Tests (PSAT), Scholastic Aptitude Tests (SAT), and Graduate Record Exams (GRE); older students in adult education courses, English as a Second Language (ESOL) students; those in Exceptional Student Education (ESE) programs and Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) programs.