Philadelphia, PA -- Talking dirty may be the best way to help a person increase their vocabulary.

That's what SAT prep coach Renee Mazer has learned while helping college-bound kids prepare for the vocabulary part of the big test.

Mazer figures teens are more likely to remember a word in a racy context so she tells them stories about her dates, like the lifeguard who stripped naked and "wasn't diminutive if you know what I mean."

You'd think some parents might curse up a storm after hearing their kids apply a dirty context to dignified vocabulary words but Mazer says she's only heard nice things.

That may be because kids who use her "va-va-va-voom" vocabulary tips increase their verbal scores on the SATs by 82 points and, in her words, "are incorporating them into their everyday speech."

Mazer discusses increasing the vocabulary on a new educational CD, "Not Too Scary Vocabulary."

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