If you're getting ready for college and preparing to take the SAT, the ACT, or similar competitive tests, you'll need a solid college-level vocabulary to achieve a high score. This book will help you build your word power. It defines more than 2,000 words frequently found on college entrance exams and places each word in a model sentence so you'll understand how to use it correctly. Helpful vocabulary-building exercises follow every group of 40 new words. You'll also find an enlightening review of word prefixes and roots--important keys to building a larger vocabulary--and pronunciations to help you enunciate each word correctly