Name That Movie! A Painless Vocabulary Builder Romantic Comedy & Drama Edition: Watch Movies and Ace the SAT, ACT, GED and GRE! - Softcover

Leaf, Brian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470903260 ISBN 13: 9780470903261

Publisher: Cliffs Notes, 2010

Synopsis

The most entertaining way to master vocabulary for the SAT, ACT, GED, and GRE exams

Do you need to brush up on your vocabulary skills for the SAT, ACT, GED, or GRE exam? Ever wish you could put your talent for quoting your favorite movies to more use than one-upping your friends? Now you can do both with Name That Movie! A Painless Vocabulary Builder: Romantic Comedy & Drama Edition.

Name That Movie! is the only vocabulary workbook that capitalizes on your insatiable appetite for romantic comedies and dramas to help build your vocabulary for standardized tests. First, you'll be presented with a popular quote. Then you'll identify the movie and scene from which it was taken. Next, you'll jot down possible definitions for each bolded word in the quote and check your answers against the solutions provided. It's that easy!

• 1000 cumulative vocabulary words, including synonyms
• Quotes taken from popular romantic comedies and dramas
• Other titles by Leaf: Defining Twilight, Defining New Moon, Defining Eclipse, and Defining Breaking Dawn

Whether you're the queen of quoting Mean Girls or just want to find a more exciting way to build your vocabulary skills, Name That Movie! A Painless Vocabulary Builder: Romantic Comedy & Drama Edition is for you!

About this title

From the Back Cover:

The most entertaining way to master vocabulary for the *SAT, ACT, GED, and GRE

Can you really learn the high-level vocabulary words martinet and absolution from the movie Titanic? Did Captain Jack Sparrow use the words macabre, belligerent, and superfluous in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies? And can you learn the words inauspicious, inane, and capricious from the Twilight movies? The answer is "Yes!" So, see if you can Name That Movie! as you test your movie trivia knowledge and learn more than 1,000 SAT, ACT, GED, and GRE vocabulary words from Mean Girls, The Notebook, Wedding Crashers, Pride & Prejudice, Miss Congeniality, Shrek 2, and more!

Name That Movie! is the only vocabulary workbook that capitalizes on your insatiable appetite for romantic comedy and drama movies to help build your vocabulary for standardized tests.

• 100 excerpts from popular romantic comedy and drama movies

• Attempt to name the movie, describe the scene, and define the boldface vocabulary words

• Get hints and check your answers against the solutions provided

• Learn synonyms and memorization tools throughout the workbook

100 Movie Quotes & Over 1,000 Vocabulary Words

About the Author:

BRIAN LEAF, M.A., is the owner and Director of New Leaf Learning Center. In his eighteen years of private teaching and tutoring, Brian has provided SAT, ACT, GED, and SSAT instruction and preparation to thousands of students. In 2008, he was chosen as an English and Mathematics Expert for ExpertVillage.com.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cliffs Notes
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0470903260
• ISBN 13: 9780470903261
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 264