VOCABULARY DEFLATION

Even though the College Board Scholastic Aptitude Tests have now been dumbed down and the grades have been arbitrarily inflated to obscure the lowered abilities of students in American socialized education, it is still necessary to have a moderately good vocabulary in order to score well on the verbal examination. Test preparation products, however, must conform to the abilities of their customers.

The Princeton Review - Cracking the SAT and PSAT, 1997 Edition by Adam Robinson and John Katzman, published by Random House, provides vocabulary lists and definitions as study aids for the verbal test. Two examples: "Sycophant'' is defined as "one who sucks up to others.'' "Jingoist'' is defined as "an extreme patriot.''