Level 2: Mastering Vocabulary & Grammar (PSAT/SAT/ACT/SSAT/HSPT/ISEE)

This course is appropriate for any student wanting to prepare for the PSAT, Digital SAT, Private School Entrance Tests, or any student wanting to improve vocabulary for standardized tests. For students that have not officially began to prepare for standardized tests, this course is a great starting point to introduce students to Greek and Latin Roots, related vocab, and tricky grammar topics. This course is also helpful for ELL (CERFA B2 and above).

Each class covers roughly 12 words and 3-4 roots. Classes do not build on each other; learners may join and leave at any time. Each class also includes an optional post-class quiz and study materials.

Week 1: conducive, deduce, evince, impetuous, impetus, induce, intractable, invincible, petulant, protracted, provincial, retract 

Grammar: Clauses and Phrases

Week 2:  anatomy, compunction, concise, dichotomy, epitome, excise, fractious, incisive, infraction, infringe, punctilious, pungent, tome 

Grammar: Avoiding Sentence Fragments

Week 3: abject, compel, conjecture, dejected, dismissive, emissary, emote, expel, impulse, motif, motive, remiss 

Grammar: Avoiding Run-ons

Week 4: comportment, confer, defer, deference, deviate, impervious, inference, obviate, proffer, proliferate, purported, viaduct 

Grammar: Punctuation Review

Week 5: apparition, aspect, diaphanous, envisage, epiphany, introspective, perspicacious, phenomenon, retrospective, sycophant, visage 

Grammar:  Dashes/Apostrophes

Week 6: adherent, diffuse, diligent, dissolute, effusive, incoherent, inherent, insoluble, profuse, recollect, resolute, sacrilege 

Grammar: Subject-Verb Agreement

Week 7: constructive, construe, destitute, expound, facile, facsimile, factotum, infrastructure, proficient, proponent, restitution, stature 

Grammar: Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement

Week 8: complacent, docile, doctrine, gratuitous, indoctrinate, ingrate, ingratiate, intemperate, placebo, placid, temper, temperance 

Grammar: Active Voice

Week 9: adverse, convoluted, deflect, evolve, extort, inflection, inflexible, retort, revert, subvert, tortuous, voluble 

Grammar: Avoiding Wordiness / Redundancy

Week 10: approbation, culpable, culprit, decriminalize, exonerate, incriminate, mea culpa, onerous, onus, recrimination, reprobate, reprove 

Grammar: Avoiding Awkward Constructions

Week 11: confide, credence, credible, credulity, diffident, dubious, fallacious, fallacy, fallible, fidelity, incredulous, indubitable, redoubtable 

Grammar: Parallelism

Week 12: definitive, infinite, infinitesimal, innovative, novel, novice, penultimate, primacy, primal, primeval, ultimate, ultimatum 

Grammar: Logic

Week 13: aberrant, circumvent, congress, convene, covenant, cursory, degrade, egress, errant, erroneous, incursion, precursor, recourse 

Grammar: Common Usage Errors

Week 14: apolitical, civic, civility, civilize, cosmopolitan, demagogue, demographic, pandemic, politicize, virile, virtue, virtuoso 

Grammar: Avoiding Run-ons

Week 15: advocate, benediction, clamorous, colloquial, declaim, dictate, eloquent, equivocate, evocative, exclamatory, locution, malediction 

Grammar: Avoiding Fragments

Week 16: acerbic, acrid, acrimonious, crucial, crux, doleful, dolorous, effervescent, exacerbate, excruciating, fervent, fervor, indolent 

Grammar: Dashes

Week 17: annotate, connotation, conscientious, denotation, dispute, disreputable, impute, irrational, prescient, rationale, rationalize, unconscionable 

Grammar: SV Agreement

Week 18: aesthetic, anesthetic, antipathy, apathetic, empathy, intact, pathos, presentiment, sentient, sentiment, sentinel, tactile, tangible 

Grammar: PA Agreement

Week 19: abrogate, acquisitive, arrogant, correspond, deprecate, derogatory, despondent, espouse, imprecation, inquisitive, interrogate, precarious, requisition 

Grammar: Avoiding Illogical Sentences

Week 20: admonition, cautionary, cautious, conciliatory, counsel, dissuade, persuasion, precaution, premonition, reconcile 

Grammar: Avoiding Vague References

Week 21: avarice, avid, bibulous, glut, glutton, gustatory, gusto, imbibe, insipid, palatable, palate, sapient 

Grammar: Common Word Errors

Week 22: fetid, malodorous, odoriferous, olfactory, putrefy, putrid, rancid, rancor, redolent, stagnant, stagnate


Roots studied: A, AB, AD, ALTER, AMPHI, ANA, ANTE, ANTI, CIRCUM, CO, CON, CONTRA, DE, DIA, DIS, DYS, EPI, EX, HYPER, IN, INTRO, OB, OMNI, PER, PERI, POST, PRE, RE, RETRO, SUB, SUPER, SUR, SYM, SYN, TRANS, TELE

MISSED CLASSES
If your student misses a class, a recording will always be accessible on the classroom page. The PowerPoint lessons and quizzes are always available as well. Do note that learners that leave and then come back (i.e. pausing a subscription) may not be able to see my posts if I posted anything while they are away. Reach out to see if you missed anything. Recordings are unfortunately unavailable for weeks that your learner does not attend AND if they have not been present for a live class (Outschool Policy).

REFUND POLICY 
If your student is not able to attend in person but stays enrolled, refunds will not be issued. This is because the student can still access the materials, recordings, and receive feedback for assignments. I do provide refunds for emergency situations. If you have a tech or Zoom issue, contact Support and mention the Happiness Guarantee.

RECORDINGS
Recordings are released automatically. Do note that a student must attend at least one live class in order to be able to see the recordings

PARTICIPATION
Providing students an enjoyable and safe learning environment is my top priority. New students must briefly confirm identity and then they may choose to keep cameras off if they wish. Students are welcome to participate/communicate in the way that they are most comfortable with (chat or raising hand and speaking). I also do not cold call on students; this can be very anxiety-inducing for learners.