Vocabulary for the GRE
Vocabulary for the GRE In the GRE, vocabulary plays a very important role. The Verbal Reasoning section contains a wide range of words. These are some of the words that are most commonly used in native-English speaking countries. You will need a strong vocabulary to be able to answer questions on Reading comprehension – to be able to comprehend passages on a wide range of complex topics Text Completion and Sentence Equivalence – these questions directly test your vocabulary in context in the GRE are vocabulary based. To complicate matters, there are so many GRE vocabulary lists available – some with 300 words while some with 1000. But the question is – How does one remember so many words? Is it possible to remember all the words and that too, in context? A decent strategy We can follow the following steps: Try to understand the roots of words instead of memorizing the words themselves – that way, you can try to make out a meaning of the word even if you aren’t familiar with that word. ...