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adagio, 79 alliteration, 83 • Numerics • Adam, 93 alloy, 122 1:2,3:4 analogy, 25–26, 29–30 adapt/adopt, 64–65 allusion, 83 1:3,2:4 analogy, 26–27 addition, 130 allusion/illusion, 65 1:4,2:3 analogy, 27 ADHD (attention deficit-hyper- alology, 61 2:1,4:3 analogy, 29 activity disorder), 108 Alps, 97 38th parallel north, 97 adhesion, 122 altar/alter, 65 1970s energy crisis, 103 adjective, 36 alter ego, 67 1984 (Orwell), 88 Adler, Alfred, 109 alternate meanings, analogies adopt/adapt, 64–65 with, 37 adoption, 110 alternating current, 122 • A • adorned, 259 altissimo, 79 Adriatic Sea, 97 alto, 79 a cappella, 79 adroit, 259 altruistic, 259 a priori, 67 adulation, 259 Alzheimer’s disease, 108 a tempo, 79 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, amalgamate, 260 abase, 257 The (Twain), 89 Amazing Grace (Newton), 83 abate, 257 Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Amazon river, 97 abeyance, 258 The (Twain), 89 amber, 125 abolitionism, 100 advice/advise, 65 ameliorated, 260 Abraham Lincoln assassination, , 97 amenable, 260 104 Aeineid, The (Virgil), 89 amendment, 106 abridge, 258 aeration, 120 America (Smith), 83 abscission, 117 aerobic organism, 117 America the Beautiful (Ward absolute zero, 120 aerodynamics, 122 and Lee), 83 abstemious, 258 Aeschylus, 85 American Civil War, 103 abstruse, 258 Aesop, 85 American Gothic (Wood), 76 abysmal, 258 aesthetic, 259 American Revolution, 104 academic environment, 16–17 affable, 259 amicable, 260 accede, 258 affectation, 259 amino acid, 117 accelerando, 79 affect/effect, 65 ampere, 122, 129 acceleration, 122 affirmative action, 110 Ampere, Andre-Marie, 124 accent, musical, 79 agnosticism, 92 amphitheatre, 77 accept/except, 64 alcoholism, 108 anachronism, 83, 260 acclimatization, 117 Alcott, Louisa May, 85 anagrams, 23 accommodations, for testing, 12 Aldrich, John, 107 analogical thinking, 15–17 acerbic, 258 Alexander’s Feast (Dryden), 86 analogies. See also solving anal- acid, 120 COPYRIGHTEDalfresco, 67 MATERIALogies; structural types acid rain, 125 algebra, 131 alternate meanings for, 37 acidulous, 258 Alger, Horatio, 85 described, 8, 15 acoustics, 122 Alice in Wonderland (Caroll), 86 description analogies, 18–19 acrimonious, 258 Alighieri, Dante, 85 parts analogies, 20 act, literary, 83 alkali metal, 128 playful, 22–23 actinide, 128 alkaline earth metal, 128 similar/different, 21–22 action steps, making a list of, 43 Allah, 93 tough questions, 33–40 action theory, 110 allegory, 83 type analogies, 19–20 activation energy, 120 allegretto, 79 analogy traps acumen, 259 allegro, 79 category traps, 38 acute angle, 131 alleviate, 259 direction traps, 38–39 acute stress reaction, 108 Allies, 100 distractor traps, 39 ad hoc, 67 Allison, Graham, 107 tips for, 37–38 ad nauseum, 67

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anatomy, 117 ardent, 261 andante, 79 area, 132 • B • Andersen, Hans Christian, 86 Ares/Mars, 93 Bacchus/Dionysus, 93 Andes, 98 arid, 261 Bach, Johann Sebastian, 82 Andromeda galaxy, 125 aristocracy, 106 background radiation, 123 Angelico, Fra, 74 Aristophanes, 86 backward, working, 35–36 Angelou, Maya, 86 Aristotle, 90, 91 Bacon, Francis, 90 angle, 131 arithmetic, 130–131 bacteria, 117 angstrom, 123 Armageddon, 92 bacteriology, 61 anile, 260 Armstrong, Louis, 82 bacteriophage, 117 Animal Farm (Orwell), 88 arpeggio, 79 balanced reciprocity, 112 animalia kingdom, 127 art, 73–76 ballad, 84 animals, 127–128 art deco, 73 Balzac, Honoré de, 86 anion, 120 Art of War, The (Tzu), 91 Bandaranaike, Sirimavo, 102 Anna Karenina (Tolstoy), 89 artists and works, 74–76 bankruptcy, 104 anodyne, 260 As I Lay Dying (Faulkner), 87 barometer, 120 anorexia nervosa, 108 ascent/assent, 65 baroque, 73 antagonist, 83 asceticism, 92 Barzun, Jacques, 111 , 98 Asgard, 94 base, 120 antediluvian, 260 ashen, 262 bas-relief, 77 Anthony, Susan B., 102 aspersion, 262 bass, 79 anthropocentrism (AKA Assassination of Abraham Baudelaire, Charles, 86 humanocentrism), 112 Lincoln, 104 bauhaus, 73 anthropology, 61, 112–113 assiduous, 262 Bay of Pigs Invasion, 104 antihero, 84 assimilation, 110 bear, 127 antipositivism, 110 assonance, 84 beat, musical, 79 antisemitism, 110 assuage, 262 beatific, 262 antithesis, 260 asteroid, 125 beatify, 262 anxiety, dealing with, 49–50, astrology, 61 beaufort, 129 251–253 astronomical unit, 123 Beckett, Samuel, 86 apace, 261 astronomy, 125 Becquerel, Antoine Henri, 124 Apartheid, 100, 261 atheism, 92 bee, 127 Aphrodite/Venus, 92 Athena/Minerva, 93 Beethoven, Ludwig van, 82 aplomb, 261 Atlas Mountains, 98 beguile, 263 apocryphal, 261 atom, 120 behaviorism, 108 Apollo, 92 atomic mass, 128 behemoth, 263 Apollo 11, 104 atomic number, 120, 128 belied, 263 apostrophe, 84 atrium, 77 Bell, Alexander Graham, 126 apothegm, 261 Attack on Pearl Harbor, 104 Bell Jar, The (Plath), 88 Appalachian Mountains, 98 attention deficit-hyperactivity belligerent, 263 Appearance and Reality disorder (ADHD), 108 Bellow, Saul, 86 (Bradley), 90, 91 audio edition tests, 12 Beloved (Morrison), 88 appoggiatura, 79 august, 262 bend, 79 apposite, 261 Auld Lang Syne, 83 Benedict, Ruth, 113 appraise/apprise, 65 Austen, Jane, 86 bereft, 263 aqueduct, 77 austere, 262 Berlin, Irving, 83 Arabian Sea, 98 authoritarianism, 106 Berlin Wall, fall of, 104 arachnology, 117 authors/writers, 85–89 Bernoulli, Daniel, 124 arc, 132 autocracy, 106 bespoke, 263 arch, 261 automaton, 262 bête noire, 67 archaeology, 61 average, 130 Beyond Good and Evil archetype, 108 Avogadro, Amedeo, 122 (Nietzsche), 90, 91 Archimedes, 124 avuncular, 262 Bible, 94 architects, 78 axiology, 61 bifurcated, 263 architecture, 77–78 Axis, 100 big bang, 123 , 98

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bildungsroman, 84 playful analogies, 22–23 Bill of Rights, 100 • C • similar/different analogies, Billy the Kid (Copland), 82 cabinet, 106 21–22 binary star, 123 cache, 264 type analogies, 19–20 Binet, Alfred, 109 cadenza, 79 categories, word biochemistry, 117, 120 calamitous, 264 collective nouns, 62–64 biology, 61, 117–119 Calder, Alexander, 74 commonly confused, 64–67 Birth of Venus, The (Botticelli), caliber, 129 foreign words, 67–69 74 Call of the Wild, The -ology words, 61–62 bit, 129 (London), 88 category traps, 38 Bizet, Georges (Carmen), 83 Calling of Saint Matthew Cather, Willa, 86 black hole, 123 (Caravaggio), 74 cation, 120 Black Paintings (Goya), 75 camaraderie, 264 cattle, 127 Black Power, 110 cameo, 77 caveat emptor, 68 Black Sea, 98 Camus, Albert, 86 celebration, scheduling, 44 Blake, William, 86 Candidate Information celerity, 265 bloviated, 263 Booklet, 7 cell, 26–27 Boas, Franz, 113 Candide (Voltaire), 91 cell membrane, 118 body and mind, preparing, 50 canon, musical, 79 cell nucleus, 118 Bohr, Niels, 124 Canterbury Tales, The celsius, 123, 129 boiling, 120 (Chaucer), 86 censure, 265 bona fide, 67 canto, 84 centi-, 129 Bonaparte, Napoleon, 102 capacious, 265 centrifuge, 120 bond, 120 capital/capitol, 65 centripetal force, 123 bootless, 263 capitalism, 104 Cervantes, Miguel de, 86 Bosch, Hieronymus, 74 Capitol, building, 78 Cezanne, Paul, 74 boson, 123 capricious, 265 Chagell, Marc, 74 botany, 118 carat, 129 champion, 265 Botticelli, Sandro, 74 Caravaggio, 74 Charlemagne, 102 bourgeoisie, 100 Card Players, The (Cezanne), 74 Chaucer, Geoffrey, 86 Bradbury, Ray, 86 cardinal, 265 Chekov, Anton Pavlovich, 86 Bradley, Herbert Francis, 90, 91 cardiology, 61 chemical reaction, 120 Brahms, Johannes, 82 caricature, 73 chemical symbol, 128 brass, 79 Carmen (Bizet), 83 chemistry Brave New World (Huxley), 87 Carnegie, Andrew, 102 figures, 122 breaks, taking, 251 carol, 79 periodic table, 128–129 breathing, during MAT test, 251 Caroll, Lewis, 86 terms, 120–122 bridge, musical, 79 carpe diem, 67 Chernobyl disaster, 104 British Museum, 76 carte blanche, 68 Cherry Orchard, The Brontë, Charlotte, 86 cartography, 98 (Checkov), 86 Brontë, Emily, 86 Caruso, Enrico, 82 , 98 Buddha, Gautama, 93 carving, 73 chicanery, 265 Buddhism, 92 , 98 chicken, 127 bugbear, 264 caste, 100, 112 chide, 265 bulimia, 108 Castro, Fidel, 102 chloroplast, 118 bumptious, 264 casus belli, 68 choice overload (overchoice), buoyancy, 123 cat, 127 110 burgeoning, 264 Cat in the Hat, The (Seuss), 88 choleric, 265 Burr, Aaron, 102 catacombs, 77 Chop Suey (Hopper), 75 buttress, 264 catalyst, 120 Chopin, Frederic, 82 bygone, 264 categories, relationship. See chord, musical, 79 Byron, Lord George, 86 also analogies Christianity, 92 byte, 129 description analogies, 18–19 Christina’s World (Wyeth), 76 byzantine, 264 parts analogies, 20 Christmas, 94

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deleterious, 269 distractor traps, 39 Eid al-Adha, 94 demagogue, 269 dividend, 131 Eid ul-Fitr, 94 demarcate, 270 Divine Comedy, The Einstein, Albert, 124 democracy, 106 (Alighieri), 85 Ekman, Paul, 109 demography, 110 division, 131 El Niño–Southern Oscillation, 98 denigrate, 270 divisive, 271 elasticity, 123 denominator, 131 divisor, 131 eldritch, 273 denouement, 84 DNA, 118 election, 107 density, 123 docile, 272 electoral college, 107 deontology, 61 doggedness, 272 electrolyte, 120 dependant/dependent, 65 doggerel, 84, 272 electron, 120 deposition, 120 dogmatic, 272 elegy, 84 Deposition of Christ Doll’s House, A (Ibsen), 87 elicit/illicit, 66 (Angelico), 74 , 106 elimination, process of, 34–35 Depression, economic, 105 Don Giovanni (Mozart), 83 Eliot, George, 86 Descartes, René, 90 Don Juan (Byron), 86 Eliot, T. S., 87 description analogies, 18–19 Don Quixote (Cervantes), 86 Ellington, Duke, 82 desert/dessert, 65 Donatello, 75 ellipse, 132 desiccated, 270 Donne, John, 86 Ellison, Ralph, 87 despoiled, 270 doppelgänger, 68 Emancipation Proclamation, 101 desuetude, 270 doppler effect, 123 embroiled, 274 détente, 106 Doric Order, 77 embryo, 118 deus ex machina, 68 Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 86 embryonic, 274 dew point, 123 Douglass, Frederick, 102 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 87 Dewey, John, 90 Dr. Faustus (Marlowe), 88 eminent/imminent, 66 diameter, 132 draconian, 272 emollient, 274 diaphanous, 270 drag, 123 empiricism, 89 diatribe, 270 droll, 272 encomium, 274 Dickens, Charles, 86 Dryden, John, 86 encompass, 274 Dickinson, Emily, 86 dubious, 272 encore, 80 dictator, 106 Dubois, W. E. B., 111 endemism, 118 dictionary definitions, dudgeon, 272 endogamy, 110 remembering, 38 dupe, 272 endothermic, 123 didactic, 270 duplicitous, 273 energy, 125 Diesel, Rudolf, 126 Durkheim, Émile, 111 energy crisis, 1970s, 103 difference, 131 dynamics, 80 enervating, 274 different/similar analogies, dyspeptic, 273 enfant terrible, 68 21–22 Engels, Friedrich, 90, 91 difficulty level, noticing, • E • English Channel, 98 34, 37, 46, 49 enology, 61 diffusion, 110, 112 Easter, 94 ensorcelled, 274 dilatory, 270 Easter Monday (De Kooning), 75 ensure/insure, 66 dint, 271 Easter Rising, 104 entomology, 61 Dionysus/Bacchus, 93 ebullient, 273 entreat, 274 direction traps, 38–39 eclectic, 273 entropy, 121 dirge, 80 ecology, 118, 125 environment, for testing, 46 discomfit, 271 economics, 104–106 enzyme, 118 discreet/discrete, 66 ecosystem, 118 epic, 84 discriminate, 37, 271 Edison, Thomas, 126 epidemiology, 61 disgruntled, 271 educated guess, making, 37 epiphany, 84 disparage, 271 effaced, 273 epistemology, 61 dispatch, 271 effect/affect, 65 equation, 131 displacement, 123 efficacious, 273 , 98 disputatious, 271 effusive, 273 equilateral triangle, 132 distension, 271 egalitarian, 273 equilibrium, 123 distillation, 125 egg, 118 eradicate, 274 distinguish, 37 ego, 108 Erie Canal, 98

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Erikson, Erik, 109 fascism, 107 foible, 277 eschatology, 61 fastidious, 276 following through with plans, 42 eschew, 60, 275 fathom, 129 food, 248 essay, 84 fatuous, 276 foot, 84 Essay Concerning Human Faulkner, William, 87 For Whom the Bell Tolls Understanding, An (Locke), Faust (Goëthe), 87 (Hemingway), 87 90, 91 faux pas, 68 forbearance, 277 essays, writing, 320–321 fawning, 276 force, 123 estimable, 275 feckless, 276 foreign words, 67–69 etching, 74 fecund, 277 foreshadowing, 84 Ethan Frome (Wharton), 89 Federal Deposit Insurance foreword/forward, 66 ethics, 89 Corporation (FDIC), 105 forte, 80 ethnocentrism, 112 Federal Reserve Board of fortissimo, 80 ethology, 61, 118 Governors, 105 fortitude, 277 etiolated, 275 Federal Trade Commission Fourteen Points, 101 etiology, 61 (FTC), 105 fox, 128 Euripedes, 87 federalism, 107 fracas, 278 evanescent, 275 feeling what you’re feeling, 253 fraction, 131 Eve, 93 feint/faint, 66 fractious, 278 everglades, 98 fermata, 80 Frankenstein (Shelley), 88 evinced, 275 Fermi, Enrico, 124 Franklin, Benjamin, 126 ex cathedra, 68 ferret, 127 freezing, 121 exacting, 275 festivals/holidays, 94 frequency, 121 except/accept, 64 fetid, 277 Frère Jacques, 83 exculpated, 275 fiasco, 68 fresco, 74 exercise, 247 figures Freud, Sigmund, 109 existentialism, 90 anthropologists, 113 friction, 123 exonerated, 275 architects, 78 Frost, Robert, 87 exorbitant, 275 artists, 74–76 froward, 278 exothermic, 123 authors, 85–89 fruition, 278 expansion, economic, 105 biologists, 119 FTC (Federal Trade expatriate, 276 chemists, 122 Commission), 105 expedient, 276 economists, 106 fuliginous, 278 experimental questions, 12, 34 historical, 102–103 fulsome, 278 exponent, 131 musicians and composers, 82 functionalism, 110 expressionism, 74 philosophers, 90–91 funereal, 278 expunge, 276 physicists, 124–125 fungi kingdom, 127 extant, 276 political scientists, 107–108 furlong, 129 extirpate, 276 psychologists, 109 furor, 278 religious, 93 further/farther, 66 • F • scientists, 126 fusion, 123 sociologists, 111 fable, 84 filial, 277 • G • façade, 77 fine, 80 factor, 131 Firebird, The (Stravinsky), 82 gaffe, 278 Faerie Queen, The (Spenser), 89 fission, 123 gainsay, 279 Fahrenheit, 129 Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 26, 87 galaxy, 125 faint/feint, 66 flat, 80 Galileo, 125 fait accompli, 68 Flaubert, Gustave, 87 gambol, 279 Fall of the Berlin Wall, 104 Fleming, Alexander, 119 gamma ray, 123 falling behind in the test, 48 florid, 277 Gandhi, Indira, 102 falsetto, 80 flouted, 277 Gandhi, Mahatma, 90, 102 family, 127 flummoxed, 277 Garden of Earthly Delights, The farad, 123 focal vocabulary, 112 (Bosch), 74 Faraday, Michael, 124 focus during test, maintaining, gargantuan, 279 farther/further, 66 49–50 gargoyle, 77

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garrulous, 279 GPA, presenting, 320 halogen, 128 Garvey, Marcus, 102 graduate level vocabulary, Hamilton, Alexander, 102 gas, 121 257–318 Handel, George Frideric, 82, 83 Gaudi, Antoni, 78 graduate school Hanukkah, 94 Gaugin, Paul, 75 admission procedure, 320–322 harangue, 280 Gaza Strip, 98 interviews, 321–322 Hardy, Thomas, 87 Geertz, Clifford, 113 MAT score’s role in, 10, 13 harmony, 80 Gehry, Frank, 78 referrals and resume for, 321 Hartz, Louis, 107 gemeinschaft and gesellschaft, sending score report to, Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 87 110 11–12, 319 Haydn, Joseph, 82 gene, 118 graffiti, 74 Haystacks (Monet), 75 genealogy, 112 grammar change analogies, Heart of Darkness (Conrad), 86 general relativity, 123 22–23 hectare, 129 generalized reciprocity, 112 grandiloquent, 280 Heisenberg, Werner, 125 genetics, 118 Grant, Ulysses S., 102 heliocentric, 125 Geneva Conventions, 101 Grapes of Wrath, The Hemingway, Ernest, 87 genial, 279 (Steinbeck), 89 Henry VIII, 102 genre, 84 gravitas, 280 Hera/Juno, 93 gentrification, 110 gravitation, 125 Hermes/Mercury, 93 genus, 127 GRE test, 10–11 hermetic, 280 geochemistry, 121 GRE vocabulary book, 59 Hermitage Museum, 76 geography, 97–100 Great Depression, 101 herpetology, 62, 118 geology, 61 Great Gatsby, The hertz, 123, 129 geometry, 131–133 (Fitzgerald), 87 Herzog (Bellow), 86 germinate, 279 Great Lakes, 98 Hesse, Herman, 87 gerontology, 62 Great Salt Lake, 98 heterodox economics, 105 Gershwin, George, 82 Great Sphinx, 78 hexagon, 132 Giacometti, Alberto, 75 Greek/Roman gods, 92–93 heyday, 281 Gibson, James, 109 greenhouse effect, 125 hiatus, 281 gift economy, 105 Greensleeves, 83 hidden curriculum, 110 Gilbert and Sullivan, 82 Grimm Brothers, 87 hidebound, 281 Ginsberg, Allen, 87 grisly/grizzly, 66 hieroglyphs, 77 glacial, 279 Gross National Product (GNP), Himalayas, 98 glancing, 279 105 Hinduism, 92 Glasnost, 101 grouse, 280 Hippocrates, 119 glowered, 279 grovel, 280 hirsute, 281 GNP (Gross National Product), Guernica (Picasso), 75, 93 histology, 62, 118 105 guessing historical events, 103–104 goal score. See also score benefits of, 46, 48 history, 100–104 achieving, 47 educated, 37 histrionic, 281 setting, 42–43 second guessing, 249, 251 Hitler, Adolf, 102 timing each question and, 48 Guevara, Che, 102 Ho Chi Minh, 102 goals Guggenheim, 76 hoard/horde, 66 long-term, 45 Gulliver’s Travels (Swift), 89 Hobbes, Thomas, 90, 91 setting, 42–43 gumption, 280 Hobbit, The (Tolkien), 89 goat, 128 holidays/festivals, 94 God Bless America (Berlin), 83 • H • holistic, 281 gods, 92–93 Holocaust, 104 Goëthe, Johann Wolfgang von, habeas corpus, 107 Homer, 87 87 hackneyed, 280 Homer, Winslow, 75 Golding, William, 87 Hades, 93, 94 Hopper, Edward, 75 Goodall, Jane, 119 Hagia Sophia, 78 horology, 62 goofy, being, 253 hagiology, 62 horse, 128 goose, 128 haiku, 84 Howl (Ginsberg), 87 Gorbachev, Mikhail, 102 hajj, 92 Hudson River, 98 gothic architecture, 77 half-life, 125 Hughes, Langston, 87 Goya, Francisco, 75 hallowed, 280 Hugo, Victor, 87

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human example, 127 impressionism, 74 humanism, 112 impromptu, 282 • J • humanities impugn, 282 James, Henry, 87 architecture, 77–78 in extremis, 68 James, William, 90 art, 73–76 in loco parentis, 68 Jane Eyre (Bronte), 86 literature, 83–89 in vino veritas, 68 Jefferson, Thomas, 78, 102 music, 79–83 inchoate, 282 jejune, 284 philosophy, 89–91 incisive, 283 Jerusalem, 94 practice test, 95–96 incite/insight, 66 Jesus, 93 religion/mythology, 92–95 incredulous, 283 JFK (John Fitzgerald Kennedy), humanocentrism (anthropo- indicator, 121 103 centrism), 112 indigenous, 112, 283 jingoism, 284 Hume, David, 90 indomitable, 283 Joan of Arc, 103 Hundred Years’ War, 104 inertia, 123 Job, 93 Huntington, Samuel P., 107 inexorable, 283 jocose, 284 Hurston, Zora Neale, 87, 113 inflation, 105 John the Baptist, 93 husbandry, 281 ingenuous/ingenious, 66 Johns, Jasper, 75 Huxley, Aldous, 87 inimical, 283 joie de vivre, 68 hymn, 80 innocuous, 283 joint family, 112 hyperbole, 84 inorganic compound, 121 joule, 123, 129 hypotenuse, 132 insight/incite, 66 Joyce, James, 87 instinct, 108 Judaism, 92 • I • institutional racism, 110 juggernaut, 284 instrumental conditioning Jung, Carl, 109 Iberian peninsula, 98 (Operant Conditioning), Jungle, The (Sinclair), 88 Ibsen, Henrik, 87 108 Jungle Book, The (Kipling), 87 ichthyology, 62, 118 insular, 284 Juno/Hera, 93 iconoclast, 281 insulator, 121 Jupiter/Zeus, 93 icons used in this book, 3 insulin, 118 jury, 107 id, 108 insure/ensure, 66 idealism, 90 intaglio, 77 idée fixe, 68 Intelligence Quotient (IQ), 108 • K • interest, 105 idiom, 84 Kafka, Franz, 87 International Date Line, 98 idiosyncrasy, 281 Kalahari Desert, 98 interviews, preparing for, igneous rock, 125 kangaroo, 128 321–322 ignoring/skipping test Kant, Immanuel, 90, 91 intro, 80 questions Keats, John, 87 inundated, 284 benefits of, 252 Kelvin, 129 invertebrate, 118 determining before the test, Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (JFK), invidious, 284 46, 249 103 Invisible Man, The (Ellison), 87 experimental questions, not Kennedy, Robert Francis (RFK), ion, 121 counted toward score, 103 ionic order, 77 12, 34 Kepler, Johannes, 126 ionization, 121 tough questions and, 33 Kerouac, Jack, 87 ipso facto, 68 Iliad (Homer), 87 key, musical, 80 IQ (Intelligence Quotient), 108 illiberal, 282 kilo-, 129 irascible, 284 illicit/elicit, 66 kindle, 284 irony, 84 illusion/allusion, 65 kinesics, 112 Isis, 93 imagery, 84 kinesiology, 62 Islam, 92 imbroglio, 282 kinetics, 121 isosceles triangle, 132 imminent/eminent, 66 King, Martin Luther, 103 isotope, 128 impeachment, 107 kingdom, 127 Italian Symphony impeded, 282 Kipling, Rudyard, 87 (Mendelssohn), 82 Imperialism, 101 kismet, 285 itinerant (nomad), 112 imperious, 282 Kiss, The (Klimt), 75 Ivanhoe (Scott), 88 impregnable, 282 kitsch, 84

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Klee, Paul, 75 lattice, 121 logorrhea, 286 Klimt, Gustav, 75 laudable, 286 Lolita (Nobokov), 88 knot, 129 Lavoisier, Antoine, 122 London, Jack, 88 knowing where you currently Lawrence, D. H., 87 Long Day’s Journey into Night, A stand, 42 lax, 286 (O’Neill), 88 Korotayev, Andrey, 113 lay/lie, 66 Longfellow, Henry kowtow, 285 Le Corbusier, 78 Wadsworth, 88 Krantz, Grover, 113 Leach, Edmund, 113 longitude, 99 Krebs cycle, 118 Leaf, Murray, 113 long-term goals, visualizing, 45 Kremlin, 99 league, 129 loose/lose, 66 Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth, 109 Leaves of Grass (Whitman), 89 Lorax, The (Seuss), 88 Lee, Katharine, 83 Lord of the Flies, The • L • Lee, Robert E., 103 (Golding), 87 legato, 80 Lord of the Rings, The La Bohème (Puccini), 82 legerdemain, 286 (Tolkien), 89 La Comédie Humaine (Balzac), Leibnitz, Gottfried, 90 lose/loose, 66 86 Lenin, Vladimir, 103 Louis XIV, 103 La Danse (Matisse), 75 Les Fleurs du Mal Louisiana Purchase, 99, 104 La Niña, 99 (Baudelaire), 86 Louvre, 76 La Traviata (Verdi), 83 Les Misérables (Hugo), 87 lovelorn, 286 labeling theory, 110 leukocyte, 118 lucre, 287 labor union, 105 lever, 124 lugubrious, 287 lachrymose, 285 Leviathan (Hobbes), 90, 91 lunar eclipse, 125 lackadaisical, 285 levirate marriage, 112 lurid, 287 laconic, 285 Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 113 Lady Chatterley’s Lover levity, 286 • M • (Lawrence), 87 Lewis, Gilbert, 122 Laissez-faire capitalism, 101 Lewis, Sinclair, 88 MacBeth (Shakespeare), 88 Lake Titicaca, 99 liberal, 107 macerate, 287 Lake Victoria, 99 licentious, 286 Macfarlane, Alan, 113 Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste, 119 Lichtenstein, Roy, 75 Machiavelli, Nicolò, 90, 91, 108 lampoon, 84 lie/lay, 66 machination, 287 language and words ligament, 118 macrostructure, 110 collective nouns, 62–64 light, 124 Madame Bovary (Flaubert), 87 commonly confused words, Light in August (Faulkner), 87 Madame Butterfly (Puccini), 83 64–67 light-year, 125 maelstrom, 287 foreign words, 67–69 limerick, 84 Magellan, Ferdinand, 103 -ology words, 61–62 limnology, 62 Magic Flute, The (Mozart), 82 practice test, 69–71 Lincoln, Abraham (assassina- Magic Mountain, The (Mann), 88 unknown words, solving tion), 104 magisterial, 287 analogies and, 34 linguistic relativity (Sapir- Magna Carta, 101 vocabulary, 15, 59–60, Whort hypothesis), 112 magnanimous, 287 257–318 lion, 128 Main Street (Lewis), 88 word prefixes, 56–58 lionized, 286 Malcolm X, 103 word roots, 53–56 lipids, 118 malinger, 287 word suffixes, 58–59 liquid, 121 Malinowski, Bronislaw, 113 languid, 285 Lister, Joseph, 119 malleable, 288 lanthanide, 128 listless, 286 mammalogy, 62, 118 lapidary, 285 literature, 83–89 mandate, 288 largess, 285 Little House on the Prairie Mandela, Nelson, 103 largo, 80 (Wilder), 89 mandir, 94 larva, 118 Little Women (Alcott), 85 Manet, Edouard, 75 Lascaux, 76 locations, religious, 94 Manhattan Project, 104 lassitude, 285 Locke, John, 90, 91 Manifest Destiny, 101 Last supper, The (da Vinci), 74 logic, 90 manifold, 288 latitude, 99 logical positivism, 90 Mann, Thomas, 88

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marcato, 80 Mead, Margaret, 113 Miró, Joan, 75 Marconi, Guglielmo, 126 measure, musical, 80 misanthrope, 289 marine biology, 118 measurement, 129–130 miscreant, 289 market, 105 Mecca, 94 miserly, 289 Marlowe, Christopher, 88 , 99 Mississippi River, 99 Mars/Ares, 93 medley, 80 River, 99 Martian Chronicles, The meiosis, 119 mitigate, 289 (Bradbury), 86 Meir, Golda, 103 mitosis, 119 Marx, Karl, 90, 91, 103 melisma, 80 mnemonics, 53, 60, 257 Mary, 93 melting, 121 Moby Dick (Melville), 88 Maslow, Abraham, 109 Melville, Herman, 88 modish, 289 mass, 124 memory device modus operandi, 68 Mass in B Minor (Bach), 82 for learning word roots, 53–54 Mohr, Karl Friedrich, 122 mass number, 128 mnemonics, 53, 60, 257 mole, 121 mass production, 105 Mendel, Gregor, 119 molecule, 121 MAT (Miller Analogies Test). Mendeleev, Dmitri, 122 MOMA, 76 See also score report Mendelssohn, Felix, 82 momentum, 124 overview, 1, 7–11 menial, 288 Mona Lisa (da Vinci), 75 registering for, 11–12, 47 mercurial, 288 Mondrian, Piet, 75 retaking, 13, 319 Mercury/Hermes, 93 monera kingdom, 127 score report, 11–12 meshuga, 288 Monet, Claude, 26, 74, 75 scoring procedure, 12 Mesopotamia, 99 monopoly, 105 subjects covered by, 9 Messiah, The (Handel), 82, 83 morass, 290 MAT Practice Test #1 metal, 128 More, Thomas, 90, 91 answers, 149–154 metalloid, 128 morphology, 62 questions, 137–147 metamorphic rock, 125 Morrison, Toni, 88 MAT Practice Test #2 Metamorphoses (Ovid), 88 Morse, Samuel, 126 answers, 167–172 Metamorphosis, The (Kafka), 87 mosaic, 74 questions, 155–165 metaphor, 84 Moses, 93 MAT Practice Test #3 meteor, 126 mosque, 94 answers, 185–190 meteorite, 126 Mother Teresa, 103 questions, 173–183 meteoroid, 126 motif, 74, 80, 84 MAT Practice Test #4 meter, 80, 84 motivation, maximizing, 44–45 answers, 203–208 meticulous, 39 Mount Everest, 99 questions, 191–201 metronome, 80 Mount Kilimanjaro, 99 MAT Practice Test #5 Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mount McKinley, 99 answers, 221–226 The, 76 Mount Olympus, 94 questions, 209–219 mettle, 288 Mount Rushmore, 99 MAT Practice Test #6 mezzo-forte, 80 Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 82 answers, 239–244 mezzo-piano, 80 Mrs. Dalloway (Woolf), 89 questions, 227–237 miasma, 289 Muhammad, 93 mathematics Michelangelo, 75 multiculturalism, 112 algebra, 131 microbiology, 119 multiple meanings, words arithmetic, 130–131 Middlemarch (Eliot), 86 with, 63 geometry, 131–133 Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 78 multiplication, 131 roman numerals, 130 milieu, 289 multitasking, 45 Matisse, Henri, 75 Milky Way, 126 Munch, Edvard, 75 matriarchy, 112 Mill, John Stuart, 90 munificent, 290 matter, 124 Miller, Arthur, 88 mural, 74 maudlin, 288 milli-, 129 museums, 76 Mauss, Marcel, 113 Mills, Robert, 78 music, 79–83 mawkish, 288 milquetoast, 289 musicians and composers, 82 Mayflower Compact, 101 Milton, John, 88 mycology, 62, 119 McMillan, Edwin, 122 minatory, 289 mythology/religion, 92–95 mea culpa, 68 Minerva/Athena, 93

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obfuscated, 291 overweening, 292 • N • obstreperous, 291 Ovid, 88 Nabokov, Vladimir, 88 obtuse angle, 132 ownership, taking, 43 Nast, Thomas, 75 Oceania, 99 oxymoron, 85 nationalism, 107 octagon, 132 NATO (North Atlantic Treaty octave, 81 • P • Organization), 101 “Ode on a Grecian Urn” natural, 81 (Keats), 87 pacific, 292 nebulous, 290 odeon, 77 Pacific Ring of Fire, 99 negative reciprocity, 112 odious, 291 pacing, for test questions, 48 neoplatonism, 90 Odyssey (Homer), 87 pagoda, 77 nepotism, 290 Oedipus Rex (Sophocles), 89 Paine, Thomas, 88 Neptune/Poseidon, 93 officious, 291 painstaking, 292 neurobiology, 119 ohm, 124, 130 palate/palette, 66 neutrino, 124 O’Keeffe, Georgia, 75 paleontology, 62 neutron, 121 Old Man and the Sea, The palindromes, 23 New Deal, 101 (Hemingway), 87 palliate, 292 Newton, Isaac, 125 Old-Age, Survivors, and pallid, 292 Newton, John, 83 Disability Insurance panacea, 292 Niagara Falls, 99 (OASDI), 105 Panama Canal, 99 Nietzsche, Friedrich, 90, 91 oligarchy, 113 pancreas, 26–27 Nile, 99 Oliver Twist (Dickens), 86 pander, 293 1984 (Orwell), 88 -ology words, 61–62 Pangaea, 99 1970s energy crisis, 103 Olympia (Manet), 75 Pantheon, 78 Noah, 93 On the Road (Kerouac), 87 paper mache, 74 Nobel, Alfred, 122 oncology, 62, 119 parable, 85 noble gas, 128 One Day in the Life of parabola, 131 noblesse oblige, 68 Ivan Denisovich Paradise Lost (Milton), 88 noisome, 290 (Solzhenitsyn), 88 paradox, 85 nom de plume, 68 1:4,2:3 analogy, 27 paragon, 293 nomad (itinerant), 112 O’Neill Eugene, 88 parallel, 132 non sequitur, 68, 290 1:3,2:4 analogy, 26–27, 29 Parallel Lives, The (Plutarch), 88 nondescript, 290 1:2,3:4 analogy, 25–26, 29–30 parallelogram, 132 nonmetal, 128 onomatopoeia, 85 parasitology, 119 nono contendere, 68 ontology, 62 pariah, 293 nonpareil, 290 onus, 291 parley, 293 norm, 110 openhanded, 291 parochial, 293 North Atlantic Treaty Operant Conditioning parody, 85 Organization (NATO), 101 (instrumental condition- parsimonious, 293 “no-score” option, choosing, 12 ing), 108 Parsons, Talcott, 111 notorious, 290 ophthalmology, 62 Parthenon, 78 Notre Dame, 78 opprobrium, 292 partisan, 293 noun, 36 oratorio, 81 parts analogies, 20 nouns, collective, 62–64 orbit, 126 parts of speech, 36 nucleus, 121 order, 127 Pascal, Blaise, 126 nugatory, 291 Oregon Trail, 99 passed/past, 66–67 numerals, roman, 130 organic chemistry, 121 Pasteur, Louis, 119 numerator, 131 original sin, 92 pastiche, 293 numinous, 291 ornithology, 62, 119 patent, 293 numismatology, 62 Orwell, George, 88 pathology, 62 Osiris, 93 pathos, 85 osmosis, 119 patois, 294 • O • ostracized, 292 patriarchy, 113 otiose, 292 OASDI (Old-Age, Survivors, and paucity, 294 Our Town (Wilder), 89 Disability Insurance), 105 Paul Revere’s Ride overchoice (choice overload), obeisance, 291 (Longfellow), 88 110

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Pauling, Linus, 122 Picture of Dorian Gray, The Pound, Ezra, 88 Pavlov, Ivan, 109, 119 (Wilde), 89 pour/pore, 67 Pavlovian conditioning (classi- picturesque, 295 practice tests. See also prepara- cal conditioning), 108 piebald, 295 tion plan; specific MAT Pearl Harbor attack, 104 pig, 128 Practice Tests Pei, I. M., 78 Pirates of Penzance, The benefits and cost, 9 Peirce, Charles Sanders, 91 (Gilbert and Sullivan), 82 environment for, 46 pejorative, 294 pitch, musical, 81 humanities, 95–96 penchant, 294 pittance, 296 identifying analogy structural pencil, moving, 252 places of worship, 94–95 type, 28–29 pencil-and-paper MAT, 11 Planck, Max, 125 language and words, 69–71 pendulum, 124 planetary, 38 pacing yourself, 48 penitent, 294 planning. See preparation plan; purchasing, 9 pentagon, 132 study plan science and math, 133–134 penurious, 294 plantae kingdom, 127 social sciences, 114–116 penury, 294 plasma, 121 strategy for solving analogies, people. See figures plate tectonics, 126 32–33 per se, 69 Plath, Sylvia, 88 taking several tests, 46–47 percussion, 81 platitude, 296 timing, 45–46 peremptory, 294 Plato, 91 tough questions, 39–40 Perestroika, 101 platonic, 296 Prado, 76 perfidy, 294 plaudits, 296 pragmatism, 90 perfunctory, 295 playful analogies prattle, 296 Pergamon, 76 grammar change, 22–23 precipitate, 121 perimeter, 132 “sounds like,” 23 precocious, 297 periodic table, 128–129 wordplay, 22 prefixes, word, 56–58 permeated, 295 plebeian, 296 prejudice, 37 perpendicular, 132 plenipotentiary, 296 prelude, 81 persecute/prosecute, 67 plot, 85 preparation plan. See also prac- Persian Gulf, 99 pluralism, 107 tice tests; study plan Persistence of Memory, The Plutarch, 88 action steps, making a list of, 43 (Dali), 75 Pluto/Hades, 93 creating your MAT study plan, persona non grata, 69 pneumatics, 124 41–43 personification, 85 poco, 81 dealing with test anxiety, Peter the Great, 103 Poe, Edgar Allan, 88 49–50, 251–253 Petrarch, 88 Poetics (Aristotle), 90, 91 duplicating the test environ- petulant, 295 poignant, 296 ment, 46 pH, 121, 130 pointillism, 74 following through with, 42 philology, 62 politesse, 296 for graduate school admis- philosophers, 90–91 political science, 106–108 sions, 320 philosophy, 89–91 Pollock, Jackson, 75 knowing when you’re ready to phlegmatic, 295 polygon, 132 register, 47 phoenix, 92 Pompidou Centre, 76 knowing where you currently photon, 124 ponerology, 111 stand, 42 phylum, 127 pore/pour, 67 maximizing your motivation, physics, 122–125 Porgy and Bess (Gershwin), 82 44–45 physiological, 295 portrait, 74 procrastination, avoiding, 45 physiology, 62, 119 Portrait of Madame X quality vs. quantity, 45, 47 phytopathology, 119 (Sargent), 76 setting a deadline and map- Pi, 132 Portrait of the Artist As a Young ping a schedule, 43–44 pianissimo, 81 Man, A (Joyce), 87 setting a score goal, 42–43 piano, 81 Poseidon/Neptune, 93 study materials, choosing, 44 picaresque, 295 positive self-talk, using, 49, 253 tackling MAT timing, 47–49 Picasso, Pablo, 75, 93 positive thinking, focus on, 45 test day preparations, picayune, 295 positivism, 111 247–249 post-transition metal, 128 pressure, 124

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presto, 81 registering for the MAT pretentious, 297 • Q • knowing when you’re ready, 47 Pride and Prejudice (Austen), 86 quagmire, 298 procedure for, 11–12 prima facie, 69 quality vs. quantity, 45, 47 Reichel-Dolmatoff, Gerardo, 113 primary colors, 74 quantum mechanics, 124 rejuvenated, 300 prime , 99 quark, 121 relationship categories. See prime number, 131 quasar, 126 also analogies primordial, 297 quash, 298 description analogies, 18–19 Prince, The (Machiavelli), Queen of Spades, The parts analogies, 20 90, 91, 108 (Tchaikovsky), 82 playful analogies, 22–23 principal/principle, 67 querulous, 299 similar/different analogies, pristine, 297 quid pro quo, 69 21–22 pro bono, 69 quiescent, 299 type analogies, 19–20 pro forma, 69 quixotic, 299 religion/mythology, 92–95 process of elimination, 34–35 quotidian, 299 religious cosmology, 113 procrastination, avoiding, 45 quotient, 131 religious figures, 93 product, 131 Quran, 94 relish, 301 profligacy, 297 Rembrandt, 76 Prohibition, 101 remedial, 301 proletariat, 101 • R • Remembrance of Things Past prolific, 297 (Proust), 88 Ra, 93 prolix, 297 remiss, 301 Rabbit, Run (Updike), 89 Prometheus Bound Renoir, Pierre-Auguste, 76 Races of Humankind, The (Aeschylus), 85 replete, 301 (Benedict), 111 Prometheus Unbound reprehensible, 301 Radcliffe-Brown, Alfred, 113 (Shelley), 88 republic, 101 radius, 132 prominent, 297 Republic, The (Plato), 91 raison d’être, 69 promulgate, 297 repugnant, 301 Ramadan, 92 propaganda, 107 requisite, 301 rancorous, 299 prosaic, 298 resigned, 301 rapturous, 299 prose, 85 resplendent, 301 rara avis, 69 prosecute/persecute, 67 rest, 81 rare earth element, 129 protectionism, 105 restive, 302 rationalism, 90 protista kingdom, 127 resume (curriculum vitae), raucous, 299 proton, 121 preparing, 321 “Raven, The” (Poe), 88 Proust, Marcel, 88 retaking the MAT, 13, 319 raze, 299 prowess, 298 reticent, 302 reagent, 121 psychiatrist, 109 retiring, 302 realism, 74 psychoanalysis, 109 retrenchment, 302 reasoning ability, measuring, 10 psychologist, 109 revanche, 302 recalcitrant, 299 psychology, 62, 108–109 reverent, 302 recapitulated, 300 Ptolemy, 126 RFK (Kennedy, Robert Francis), recession, 105 Puccini, Giacomo, 82, 83 103 recidivist, 300 puerile, 298 rhetoric, 85 recrudescent, 300 pulley, 124 rhetorical question, 85 rectangle, 132 pulsar, 126 rhombus, 132 rectitude, 300 pun, 85 ribosome, 26–27 Red Scare, 107 punctilious, 298 Richter, 130 redistribution, 113 pungent, 298 rickety, 302 redress, 300 punitive, 298 right angle, 132 reductive, 300 Purcell, Henry, 82 right triangle, 132 referrals, choosing, 321 pusillanimous, 298 Rigoletto (Verdi), 82 refracted, 300 Pygmalion (Shaw), 88 Rijksmuseum, 76 refractory, 300

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Rime of the Ancient Mariner satiated, 304 seminal, 305 (Coleridge), 86 satire, 85 semitone, 81 riposte, 302 saturine, 38 sentences risible, 302 scale, 81 building, 30–31 risque, 303 scalene triangle, 132 writing down, 249 ritard, 81 Scandinavia, 100 separation of powers, 107 River Thames, 100 scapegoat, 111, 304 September 11 attacks, 104 riveting, 303 Scarlet Letter, The sere, 305 “Road Not Taken, The” (Hawthorne), 87 serendipity, 305 (Frost), 87 scathing, 304 servile, 305 Robinson Crusoe (Defoe), 86 scene, 85 Seuss, Dr., 88 roborant, 303 schadenfreude, 69, 304 seven deadly sins, 92 Rockefeller, J. D., 103 schedule, mapping, 44 sforzando, 81 rococo, 77 Schopenhauer, Arthur, 91 Shakespeare, William, 88 Rodin, Auguste, 76 Schubert, Franz, 82 shard, 305 Rogers, Carl, 109 science and math sharia, 92 role homogeneity, 111 biology, 117–119 sharp, 81 roman numerals, 130 chemistry, 120–122 Shaw, George Bernard, 88 rondo, 81 classification, 127–128 sheep, 128 Rontgen, Wilhelm, 126 mathematics, 130–133 Shelley, Mary, 88 Roosevelt, Franklin D., 103 measurement, 129–130 Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 88 roots, word, 53–56 other sciences, 125–126 Siberia, 100 Rosh Hashanah, 94 periodic table, 128–129 Siddhartha (Hesse), 87 Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 91 physics, 122–125 Sikhism, 92 rubato, 81 practice test, 133–134 Silverstein, Shel, 88 Rubens, Peter Paul, 76 scintillating, 304 similar/different analogies, rudimentary, 303 score. See also score report 21–22 ruffian, 303 goal for, 42–43, 47, 48 simile, 85 ruminate, 303 measurement, 130 Simmel, Georg, 111 Rushdie, Salman, 88 “no-score” option, 12 Simon, Théodore, 109 rushing, 46, 47, 249, 252 procedure for scoring, 12 simper, 305 Russian Revolution, 104 questions not counted simulacrum, 306 toward, 12, 34 Sinan, Mimar, 78 • S • role in graduate school appli- Sinclair, Upton, 88 cation, 10, 13 sine qua non, 69 Sabin, Albert, 119 timing each question and, 48 sinuous, 306 saccharine, 303 score report Sistine Chapel, 75 sacrosanct, 303 preliminary and official score, site/cite, 65 Sahara, 100 13, 319 Skinner, B. F., 109 St. Peter’s Basilica, 78 sending, 11–12, 319 skipping/ignoring test Salk, Jonas, 119 when to receive, 11 questions Salome (Strauss), 82 Scott, Dred, 108 benefits of, 252 salutary, 303 Scott, Sir Walter, 88 determining before the test, sangfroid, 69 Scott Key, Francis, 83 46, 249 sanguine, 304 Scream, The (Munch), 75 experimental questions, not sapid, 304 sculpture, 74 counted toward score, Sapir-Whort hypothesis (lin- scurrilous, 304 12, 34 guistic relativity), 112 scuttle, 304 tough questions and, 33 sarcasm, 85 second guessing, 249, 251 skittish, 306 Sargent, John Singer, 76 secretes, 305 skulk, 306 Sartori, Giovanni, 108 sedentary, 305 skullduggery, 306 Satan, 93 sedimentary rock, 126 slake, 306 Satanic Verses, The sedulous, 305 Slaughterhouse-Five (Rushdie), 88 seismometer, 126 (Vonnegut), 89 satellite, 126 self-talk, positive, 49 sleep, 247

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slowing down, during test, 252 spendthrift, 307 structuralism, 113 Smith, Adam, 91 Spenser, Edmund, 89 study plan. See also prepara- Smith, Samuel Francis, 83 spurious, 307 tion plan social capital, 111 square, 132 creating, 41–43 Social Contract, The square root, 131 deadlines for study, setting, (Rousseau), 91 staccato, 81 43–44 social sciences staff, musical, 81 quality vs. quantity, 45, 47 anthropology, 112–113 Stalin, Joseph, 103 study materials, choosing, 44 economics, 104–106 stanza, 85 test day preparations, 248 geography, 97–100 Starry Night (Van Gogh), 76 stultify, 309 history, 100–104 Stars and Stripes Forever, The stupefied, 309 political science, 106–108 (Sousa), 82 Styx, 94 practice test, 114–116 Star-Spangled Banner, The subito, 81 psychology, 108–109 (Scott Key), 83 subjects sociology, 109–111 stationary/stationery, 67 humanities, 73–96 social stigma, 111 statuesque, 307 overview, 9 socialism, 105 status quo, 69 science and math, 117–134 sociology, 109–111 steadfast, 307 social sciences, 97–116 Socrates, 91 Steinbeck, John, 89 words and language, 53–71 sol, 121 stentorian, 308 sublimation, 121 solar eclipse, 126 Stevenson, Robert Louis, 89 sublime, 309 solar system, 126 stigmas, 308 subsidy, 105 solecism, 306 still life, 74 subtraction, 131 solicitous, 306 stilted, 308 subversive, 309 solid, 121 stolid, 308 subvert, 309 solipsistic, 306 stone, measurement, 130 succor, 309 solute, 121 Stonehenge, 78 succumb, 309 solvent, 121 Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 89 Suez Canal, 100 solving analogies. See also anal- Strait of Magellan, 100 suffixes, 58–59 ogies; skipping/ignoring Stranger, The (Camus), 86 suffrage, 101, 309 test questions; tough ques- stratagem, 308 sui generis, 69 tions; traps to avoid strategy for solving analogies. Sullivan, Louis, 78 building sentences, 30–31, 249 See also analogies; tough sum, 131 checking the choices, 31–32 questions; traps to avoid sumptuary, 310 identifying the structural type, building sentences, 30–31 sunspot, 126 25, 28–30 checking the choices, 31–32 super-ego, 109 practice tests, 32–33 identifying the structural type, superfluous, 310 Solzhenitsyn, Aleksander, 88 25, 28–30 supernova, 124 somnolent, 307 practice tests, 32–33 supplant, 310 Songs of Innocence (Blake), 86 Strauss, Richard, 82 supply and demand, 105 sonnet, 85 Stravinsky, Igor, 82 surmise, 310 sonorous, 307 streamlined, 308 surpassing, 310 sophistry, 307 Streetcar Named Desire, A surrealism, 74 Sophocles, 89 (Williams), 89 surreptitious, 310 sophomoric, 307 strenuous, 308 swan, 128 soprano, 81 stretching, 252 Swan Lake (Tchaikovsky), 83 Sound and the Fury, The strident, 308 Swift, Jonathan, 89 (Faulkner), 87 structural types. See also sycophant, 310 “sounds like” analogies, 23 analogies symbol, 85 Sousa, John Philip, 82 described, 23 synagogue, 95 sovereign, 307 identifying, 25, 28–30 syncopation, 81 species, 127 1:2,3:4 analogies, 25–26 synergy, 310 speech, parts of, 36 1:3,2:4 analogies, 26–27 synonyms, 21 speed, tips on, 46 1:4,2:3 analogies, 27 synoptic, 311 Spencer, Herbert, 111 writing down during tests, 249

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test anxiety, dealing with, totalitarianism, 107 • T • 49–50, 251–253 tough questions. See also analo- table, periodic, 128–129 test day preparations, 247–249 gies; solving analogies tacet, 81 test environment, 46 analogy traps to avoid, 37–39 tacit, 311 test takers, types of, 41 considering parts of speech, 36 taciturn, 311 testing center making educated guesses, 37 Taj Mahal, 78 accommodations, special, 12 noticing difficulty level, 34, 37, Tale of Two Cities (Dickens), 86 arriving at, 248 46, 49 Tate Modern, 76 checking in with, 47 practice tests, 39–40 Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich, finding, 11 process of elimination, apply- 82, 83 tests. See MAT (Miller ing, 34–35 teleology, 62 Analogies Test); practice skipping/ignoring, 33 temerity, 311 tests solving when don’t know the tempera, 74 tête-à-tête, 69 words, 34 temperance, 311 thanatology, 62 working backward, 35–36 temperature, 124 Thatcher, Margaret, 103 touted, 312 Tempest, The (Shakespeare), 88 Their Eyes Were Watching God tranquil, 313 tempestuous, 311 (Hurston), 87 transcendentalism, 90 tempo, 81 theme, 85 transcription, 119 Ten Commandments, 94 Theory of the Leisure Class, The transducer, 124 tenable, 311 (Veblen), 111 transition metal, 129 tenor, 81 thermodynamics, 126 trapezoid, 133 tenuous, 311 Thinker, The (Rodin), 76 traps to avoid. See also analo- tenuto, 81 Third World, 113 gies; solving analogies terms Thirty Years’ War, 104 category traps, 38 animals, 127–128 38th parallel north, 97 direction traps, 38–39 anthropology, 112–113 Thor, 93 distractor traps, 39 architecture, 77 Thoreau, Henry David, 89 tips for, 37–38 art, 73–74 Three Flags (Johns), 75 Treasure Island (Stevenson), 89 biology, 117–119 Tibet, 100 treble, 81 chemistry, 120–122 tibia, 31 tremulous, 313 classification, of living things, time trepidation, 313 127 pacing yourself, 48 triangle, 133 dictionary definitions, remem- recovering when you’ve fallen trill, 81 bering, 38 behind, 48 trinity, 101 economic, 104–106 rushing, 46, 47, 249, 252 triple point, 122 geographical, 97–100 setting a deadline and map- trite, 313 historical, 100–101 ping a schedule, 43–44 , 100 literature, 83–85 tackling MAT timing, 47–49 , 100 music, 79–82 timing each question, 48 truculent, 313 other sciences, 125–126 timing the practice tests, truncated, 313 philosophy, 89–90 45–46 tsar (czar), 101 physics, 122–124 timorous, 312 tumid, 313 political science, 106–107 tirade, 312 tumultuous, 313 psychology, 108–109 Titian, 76 turbid, 313 religion/mythology, 92 titular, 312 turgid, 314 sociology, 110–111 Tolkien, J. R. R., 89 Turn of the Screw, The words, multiple words, let- Tolstoy, Leo, 89 (James), 87 ters, or numbers, 18 tone, 85 turpitude, 314 terse, 312 tonic, 312 tutor, working with, 44 tertius gaudens, 111 Tönnies, Ferdinand, 111 tutti, 82 Tesla, Nikola, 125 toothsome, 312 Twain, Mark, 89 Tess of the D’Urbervilles Torah, 94 Twittering Machine (Klee), 75 (Hardy), 87 torpid, 312 2:1,4:3 analogy, 29 tessitura, 81 torque, 124 type analogies, 19–20 tortuous, 312 Tzu, Sun, 91

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vilify, 316 willful, 317 • U • vindictive, 316 Williams, Tennessee, 89 Uffizi, 76 Virgil, 89 wily, 318 umbrage, 314 virology, 62, 119 Winding Stair, The (Yeats), 89 unassuming, 314 virtuoso, 316 winsome, 318 unbridled, 314 vis-à-vis, 69 wistful, 318 uncertainty principle, 124 viscosity, 122 wizened, 318 Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe), 89 viscous, 316 Wood, Grant, 76 unctuous, 314 vitiate, 317 Woodward, Robert Burns, 122 underclass, 111 vituperated, 317 woodwinds, 82 undermine, 314 vivacious, 317 Woolf, , 89 unsavory, 314 Vivaldi, Antonio, 82 wordplay analogies, 22 upbraided, 314 vocabulary. See also words words. See also terms Updike, John, 89 graduate level, 257–318 collective nouns, 62–64 urbane, 315 improving, 59–60 commonly confused, 64–67 urbanization, 113 testing, 15 dictionary definitions for, 38 usury, 315 vociferous, 317 foreign, 67–69 utilitarian, 315 Volga, 100 -ology words, 61–62 Utopia (More), 90, 91 volition, 317 practice test, 69–71 volt, 130 prefixes, 56–58 Voltaire (Candide), 91 suffixes, 58–59 • V • Vonnegut, Kurt, 89 unknown, solving analogies and, 34 vacuole, 119 word roots, 53–56 vacuous, 315 • W • Wordsworth, William, 89 vacuum, 124 working backward, to solve vain/vane, 67 waffle, 317 analogy questions, 35–36 valence electron, 122 Waiting for Godot (Beckett), 86 workplace, analogical thinking Valhalla, 94 Walden (Thoreau), 89 in, 17 Van Gogh, Vincent, 76 wan, 317 works vapid, 315 Ward, Samuel A., 83 architecture, 78 vaporization, 122 Warhol, Andy, 76 art, 74–76 variegated, 315 warming up for the test, 248 music, 83 Vatican City, 94 Wars Powers Resolution, 107 philosophy, 91 Vatican Museums, 76 Washington, George, 103 religious, 94 vaunted, 315 Wason, James, 119 World as Will and Veblen, Thorstein, 111 “Waste Land, The” (Eliot), 87 Representation, The vehement, 315 Watson, John B., 109 (Schopenhauer), 91 venal/venial, 67 watt, 124, 130 worship, places of, 94–95 veni, vidi, vici, 69 Weber, Max, 111 wreathe/wreath, 67 Venus de Milo, 76 weltschmerz, 69 Wren, Christopher, 78 Venus/Aphrodite, 92 westernization, 113 Wright, Frank Lloyd, 78 verb, 36 Wharton, Edith, 89 writers/authors, 85–89 verbose, 315 Where the Sidewalk Ends writing verboten, 69, 316 (Silverstein), 88 essays, 320–321 Verdi, Giuseppe, 82, 83 whet, 317 structure and sentences, 249 verisimilar, 316 Whitman, Walt, 89 Wuthering Heights (Bronte), 86 vernacular, 316 whittling, 74 Wyeth, Andrew (Christina’s Versailles, 78 Why Parties? The Origin and World), 76 verse, 85 Transformation of Political vertical mobility, 111 Parties in America vex, 316 (Aldrich), 107 • X • vibrato, 82 Wilde, Oscar, 89 vigilant, 316 Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 89 xenocentrism, 111 vihara, 95 Wilder, Thornton, 89 xenophobia, 111

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zeitgeist, 69 • Y • zenith, 318 Yeats, William Butler, 89 zephyr, 318 yield, 122 Zeus/Jupiter, 93 Yom Kippur, 94 ziggurat, 77 zoology, 62, 119 • Z • Zoroaster, 93 zealous, 318 Zedong, Mao, 91

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