Darkthriller Posted May 16, 2008 Share Posted May 16, 2008 I could really use some tips on how to go at the vocabulary. I see big lists, bigger lists, and humongous lists. Then there's the antonyms and synonyms. Any help, links, ideas, would be most appreciated. Thanks y'all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ObfuscateOften Posted May 17, 2008 Share Posted May 17, 2008 Well, accept that you're going to have to manage a huge list. You probably already know very many words, and grouping the words you don't know by similar meanings will help (I think). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oldman Posted May 17, 2008 Share Posted May 17, 2008 First, what score are you aiming for? I'd start with Barron's High Frequency List and Word Smart for the GRE part 2 by Princeton Review (awesome book). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niravshah Posted June 14, 2008 Share Posted June 14, 2008 best thing would be you master the barrons wordlists first... that will cover a major chunk... then its all application in ANTONYMS and SENTENCE COMPLETION... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rokxal Posted June 15, 2008 Share Posted June 15, 2008 best thing would be you master the barrons wordlists first... that will cover a major chunk... then its all application in ANTONYMS and SENTENCE COMPLETION... Agreed. The Barron's frequency list should come first. Also, it wouldn't be a bad idea to go over all the other frequency word lists from Kaplan, Arco, and Princeton review since some of those words were missing from the Barron's 3500 altogether. GREBible also has a nice vocab learning feature with 3000 words that may or may not speed up memorization. Has anyone compared it to the GRE guru wordlist program and found it better or worse? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkthriller Posted June 16, 2008 Author Share Posted June 16, 2008 Man does this sound daunting. I have been studying the math so I'm not starting fresh. I have also been listening to vocabulary in my car (Verbal Advantage). That's been a big help. Can anyone fill me in with the GREbible? Very helpful? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rokxal Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 Many of the words if not all in the GREBible are from the Barron's list. The vocab builder feature is nice because it gives you sentence completion questions for each of the words. Guru has more words tho (5000 in all), and gives you the option of pruning the list so that you can reference only the ones that you're not familiar with. It sorta beats going through GREBible/Barron's list and having to copy/paste all the ones you don't know onto paper or a word doc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nandan Posted July 23, 2008 Share Posted July 23, 2008 I addition to this I have found some of the software like Vocabulary builder very useful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
student4life Posted July 28, 2008 Share Posted July 28, 2008 I am taking the GRE in October too, and I'd love to have a 650 on the Verbal and 750 on the Quant, and I have been studying Barrons for about a month now, every time I take the practice tests, I do not so good though. Quant in the 600's and Verbal in the 450.. I need to bump up those numbers. Were any of you ever that low in your scores and still did well? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mewidyu Posted August 2, 2008 Share Posted August 2, 2008 first go for the barrons word list.. its the must. then if you get time then study the high frequency words in kaplans and word root from kaplan.... princeton review is also very helpful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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