Learning a bunch of vocabulary words quickly is extremely useful not only to L2 learners but also to high schoolers preparing for the SATs. Creative and meaningful integration of SAT vocabulary synonyms, antonyms, and related verbs illustrates how (with a little planning and knowledge of schema theory) instructional designers can greatly reduce the cognitive load which hampers learning. First, SAT vocabulary words were grouped by meaning and abstract categories such as amount-related words, or c