--- product_id: 36996772 title: "Direct Hits Advance Vocabulary" price: "€ 77.81" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 9 url: https://www.desertcart.fi/products/36996772-direct-hits-advance-vocabulary store_origin: FI region: Finland --- # Direct Hits Advance Vocabulary **Price:** € 77.81 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Direct Hits Advance Vocabulary - **How much does it cost?** € 77.81 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.fi](https://www.desertcart.fi/products/36996772-direct-hits-advance-vocabulary) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Direct Hits Advanced Vocabulary : Vocabulary for the ACT, SAT, Advanced Placement Exams, GMAT, and more From the time you enter middle school to the time you choose a graduate school, your life seems filled with standardized tests. High schoolers have to worry about AP Exams, the ACT, and the SAT. College students have to worry about the GRE and GMAT...Worry no more! Direct Hits Advanced Vocabulary will help you prep for these tests, enhance your vocabulary, and, best of all, you'll be entertained by the contextual examples! In this book you'll find more than 200 of the most challenging words found on standardized tests. These words are presented in a format that is more engaging than the long lists of words in the Princeton Review or Kaplan test prep books. This book presents vocabulary from science and the social sciences, then proceeds to words that can have multiple meanings. These types of words appear often on tests. Finally, you'll find 131 very challenging words that have been on tests recently. Authored by Paget Hines, Advanced Vocabulary benefits from Paget's more than twenty years in teaching ESL students and students preparing for standardized tests along with Paget's immersion in more than five years of preparing students for success with CORE Vocabulary. Like all of our books, this one is easy to carry around, easy to study, and, most of all, it's fun! Review: Very useful for school and SAT - As a junior, I needed to be prepared for AP tests especially in English Language and for the SAT. Direct Hits did not fail me. Thanks to their fun method of teaching vocab through relevant stories, it was a breeze learning the words. And these words aren't only relevant for the SAT(which I scored a 680 on Critical Reading on my first try). I've read other nonfiction books such as Into the Wild and I was delighted seeing vocab I've learned from this book. To anyone wanting to brush up their vocabulary for the SAT, AP test, or just anything in general, this book is a worthy purchase. By the way, I want to include that I first read the CORE VOCABULARY Direct Hits. Don't forget to buy that one too! Review: Buy, Borrow Or Steal It. But Please Use It. - I received a review copy of the 5th edition, both volumes. As a tutor who has been using Direct Hits since the 1st edition and has also used 300 Essential Words, I offer the following comments. First, there are a lot of lists out there (I'm sure I've seen almost all of them), but the Direct Hits Family is the best. The list is based upon the actual SAT Test. The list is manageable. 1000 words, 3500 words, 5000 words?! Really? If you know that many words you need to work for Merriam-Webster. Time would be better spent reading. It is so well organized. The 5th edition shows welcome changes from the earlier editions. The explanations require less reading, sentences rather than passages. The Latin/Greek roots are interspersed throughout the books and connected with the relevant words. Direct Hits does a fantastic job in bring up previous words in new lessons; this serves as functional review. There are less sentence completion review exercises than in the earlier versions, but if you know how to use the blog posts it more than makes up for it. Heck, if you're already in college but find the reading "soo hard" get both volumes and get educated son. It's not gonna get eazier. In conclusion, I recommend Direct Hits for tutors, self-studying SAT students or anyone who wants to get a vocabulary foundation for college level. Remember, it is a start not a panacea, but it's probably the best start out there. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #1,583,690 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #4,718 in Test Prep & Study Guides #7,241 in Study Guides (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.2 out of 5 stars 78 Reviews | ## Images ![Direct Hits Advance Vocabulary - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71I0FIJWtAL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Very useful for school and SAT *by N***E on April 15, 2014* As a junior, I needed to be prepared for AP tests especially in English Language and for the SAT. Direct Hits did not fail me. Thanks to their fun method of teaching vocab through relevant stories, it was a breeze learning the words. And these words aren't only relevant for the SAT(which I scored a 680 on Critical Reading on my first try). I've read other nonfiction books such as Into the Wild and I was delighted seeing vocab I've learned from this book. To anyone wanting to brush up their vocabulary for the SAT, AP test, or just anything in general, this book is a worthy purchase. By the way, I want to include that I first read the CORE VOCABULARY Direct Hits. Don't forget to buy that one too! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Buy, Borrow Or Steal It. But Please Use It. *by K***R on March 1, 2013* I received a review copy of the 5th edition, both volumes. As a tutor who has been using Direct Hits since the 1st edition and has also used 300 Essential Words, I offer the following comments. First, there are a lot of lists out there (I'm sure I've seen almost all of them), but the Direct Hits Family is the best. The list is based upon the actual SAT Test. The list is manageable. 1000 words, 3500 words, 5000 words?! Really? If you know that many words you need to work for Merriam-Webster. Time would be better spent reading. It is so well organized. The 5th edition shows welcome changes from the earlier editions. The explanations require less reading, sentences rather than passages. The Latin/Greek roots are interspersed throughout the books and connected with the relevant words. Direct Hits does a fantastic job in bring up previous words in new lessons; this serves as functional review. There are less sentence completion review exercises than in the earlier versions, but if you know how to use the blog posts it more than makes up for it. Heck, if you're already in college but find the reading "soo hard" get both volumes and get educated son. It's not gonna get eazier. In conclusion, I recommend Direct Hits for tutors, self-studying SAT students or anyone who wants to get a vocabulary foundation for college level. Remember, it is a start not a panacea, but it's probably the best start out there. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ We had fun with it. *by O***M on November 15, 2014* When my daughter was getting ready for the SAT her older brother and I had a blast taking two facing pages and adding our own notes to the entries. I'd prop it up by her lunch on the kitchen table and she read it while she ate breakfast. It was a fun few months and became a neat little joke/communication among us three. Memorizing word lists isn't a terribly efficient way to prep, I don't think, the best thing to do is read often from a young age, IMO. But this was a good use of time and we made it fun. FWIW she did better on the ACT which is less vocab-heavy. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.fi/products/36996772-direct-hits-advance-vocabulary](https://www.desertcart.fi/products/36996772-direct-hits-advance-vocabulary) --- *Product available on Desertcart Finland* *Store origin: FI* *Last updated: 2026-05-31*