The best way to increase your vocabulary is to read, but who wants to run to the dictionary every time she sees an unfamiliar word? Kaplan, the company that preps high school students for the SAT, has published a series of books called SAT Score-Raising Classics ($5 to $8 each), with the novel on the right-hand page and definitions of the tricky words on the left. Try Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (amazon.com) (lachrymose and undulate), Robert Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (amazon.com) (sedulous and disquietude), or The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe (amazon.com) (sagacious and seraph).