practicing the words

[xeley]

Hey. You know, that the hardest thing about learning the GRE words is that they are hardly used in everyday speech (I'm not talking about Russia, where I live, where English words are not used AT ALL, which makes my situation even worse), modern books etc... So, I was rather surprised to find lots of "good" words in the Dan Brown's book "Da Vinci Code", not only it's a breathtaking detective, broading your horizons, but it contains pretty many words, which I find in numerous GRE-voc lists... Actually to me it's hard to know for sure, which words are "ordinary" and whcih are "GRE", still, the book is interesting. Just to relax. Good luck to everyone..

[hardworkworks]

I like reading TIME. Articles there are nice. Multitide of unknown vobs were encountered as well.

[peterv]

"The New Yorker" magazine is a great read for building a GRE vocabulary.
Here is a list of GRE-difficulty-level words I came across when reading the Jan 3, 2005 issue:

serendipitously, brawny, feisty, rattan, addled, cul-de-sac, rampart, reprieve, pendant, stein, spackling, epoxy, finicky, tote, vestibule, awning, bien-pensant, bouffant, writ, lei, estuary, yawp, jugular, brazenly, hectoring, trawl, lair, punt, brocade, lumpen, hokey, writhing, hoary, semaphoric, brackish, splayed, ululation, weft, nostrum, prissy, spat, bathetic, rancor, wharf

Another noteworthy publication is the "Scientific American" which, in addition to helping build a vocab, helps build the mentality needed to do well on Reading Comprehension passages drawn from fields such as Geology and Astronomy (which the ETS seems to like a lot!).