This replacement guide keeps the old vocabulary URL useful. The word “proven” in that historical URL is not a measured outcome claim for these suggestions.
- Read the whole sentence. Before checking a definition, say what the sentence is doing: describing, contrasting or explaining.
- Write a plain-language meaning. Avoid copying a definition that you cannot explain.
- Create your own example. If “tentative” means not yet settled, write: “Our trip date is tentative until the school calendar is confirmed.”
- Compare similar words. Explain how “tentative” differs from “incorrect.” A plan can be uncertain without being wrong.
- Return to the word in a different passage. Check whether the same meaning fits. Review after a break instead of only repeating one card immediately.
Check understanding
In “The committee offered a tentative date,” is the date confirmed, provisional or cancelled? Provisional fits: the sentence leaves room for a change. “Cancelled” adds information that the sentence does not provide.
Use the historical vocabulary resource for additional words, and Reading and Writing practice guidance for a broader study plan. Vocabulary memorization alone is not a complete test-preparation plan.