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Hi friends, Any tips or advice on how to tackle RC questions? I just started RC questions today and I'm getting a bit overwhelmed. What's wrong with me? I enjoy reading but I can't seem to get more than 50% on the practice exercises in my test book. Barron's 18th ed. Help!!

Hi GREphobe! So far, I've been reading Barron's 18th edition. I've read up to chap 8, but still have a long way to go. I also bought Princeton's Review & the Nova Bible. Every night I set aside one hour for vocab lists. I've also been reading some NY times articles, in hopes that'll help with AWA's. How about you? I need all the help that I can get. :) Good luck studying.

Here are the answers: 16. Glendon provides a dark underside to Frederick Turner's frontier thesis that saw rugged individualism as the essence of American Society - an individualism that she sees as ___________ atomism. (a) antithetical toward (b) skeptical of © degenerating into (d) aspiring to (e) renewed by 17. Chatwin has devoted his life to a kind of Grail quest, hoping to prove - by study and direct experience with primitive people - that human nature is gentle and defensive rather than _____________, and that man is ________________, not a predator. (a) belligerent...an apostate (b) martial...a crusader © aggressive...a pilgrim (d) truculent...a gladiator (e) pugnacious...a pawn 18. The texts as we have them were written down and edited carefully by Christians proud of their ancestors but unable to bear the thought of their indulging in heathen practices; thus, all references to the ancient religion of the Celts were ____________, if not______________. (a) deleted...expunged (b) muddied...suppressed © labored...denigrated (d) aggrieved...overawed (e) obscure...ironic

You're correct ramgorur! The answer is A. I'm not really clear as to why though...feel free to explain :)

I hope so. Thanks for your replies!

Me too. I take the GRE August 18th. I took the practice powerprep test and didn't do so well. 330V and 430 Quant. I'm hoping to get somewhere in the 1300's.

16. Glendon provides a dark underside to Frederick Turner's frontier thesis that saw rugged individualism as the essence of American Society - an individualism that she sees as ___________ atomism. (a) antithetical toward (b) skeptical of © degenerating into (d) aspiring to (e) renewed by 17. Chatwin has devoted his life to a kind of Grail quest, hoping to prove - by study and direct experience with primitive people - that human nature is gentle and defensive rather than _____________, and that man is ________________, not a predator. (a) belligerent...an apostate (b) martial...a crusader © aggressive...a pilgrim (d) truculent...a gladiator (e) pugnacious...a pawn 18. The texts as we have them were written down and edited carefully by Christians proud of their ancestors but unable to bear the thought of their indulging in heathen practices; thus, all references to the ancient religion of the Celts were ____________, if not______________. (a) deleted...expunged (b) muddied...suppressed © labored...denigrated (d) aggrieved...overawed (e) obscure...ironic

Hi all, I've been collecting some unfamiliar words from Barron's 18th edition book. Today, I worked on chapters 5 & 6...here are some unfamiliar words & their definitions. Just thought I'd share. Happy 4th! Just a side note: some words may have several meanings. I only included one definition. Enjoy! Word Defnition Miser - Cheapskate Penurious - Stinginess, extreme frugality Ascetic - Self-denial Hedonistic - Self-gratification Pusillanimous - Lacking courage Medacity - Lie, falsehood Ingenuousness - lacking cunning, artless Fortitude - Endure pain Turpitude - Immoral acts Depravity - Immoral acts Craveness - Lack of courage Ingenue - naive, innocent Indigent - Impoverished Emaciated - Undernourished Variegated - Having patches of differences Shale - Fine grated sediments Catacombs - Underground cemetary Entamologist - Someone who studies insects Aster- Parts of a plant Satiric - Exposing human folly to ridicule Reticent - Keep thoughts in Hackneyed- Over familiar, through over use Auger- Drill bit Muster- Call together Dwell - Reside (location) Denizen - An inhabitant Affable - Easily approachable Permissiveness - tolerant, lenient Digressive - Rambling Conciseness - Clear & succinct Aboveboard - honest and straight forward Dogged - Persistent in effort Apostate - One who forsakes religion Potenate - Someone with great power Jailer - Person in charge of a jail Eulogy - High Praise Elegy - Mournful, meloncholy Benediction - An utter of good wishes Tirade - Prolonged outburst, denunciation Pride - Group of lions Lair - Den or resting place Reverence - Feeling/attitude of deep respect Lament - To feel sorry for Turncoat - Person who turns or changes to the opposing party Mendicant - begging Impencunious - Having little money Chartle - Disrespect Retouch - Improve Drake - Male duck Gander - Male goose Insolent - boldly rude or disrespectful Astute - clever; cunning Decorous- characterized by dignified propriety in conduct, manners, appearance, character Inanity - lack of sense Haggard - having a gaunt, wasted, or exhausted appearance Laudatory - containing or expressing praise Encomium - a formal expression of high praise Expeditious - characterized by promptness Impropriety - inappropriateness Proponents - an advocate Pundits - a learned person, expert Interlocutors - a person who takes part in a conversation Surrogates - a person appointed to act for another; deputy Meddllers - to involve oneself in a matter without right or invitation Usurpers - to seize and hold (a position, office, power, etc.) by force or without legal right saccharine - of the nature of or resembling that of sugar sanguine - cheerfully optimistic decried - denounce as faulty or worthless acerbic - sour or astringent in taste ethereal - light, airy, or tenuous sublime - elevated or lofty in thought hyperbolic - having the nature of hyperbole; exaggerated profundity - the quality or state of being profound; depth perfunctory - performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: dubious - doubtful; marked by or occasioning doubt magnanimously - generous in forgiving an insult or injury ignominiously - marked by or attended with ignominy; discreditable; humiliating idiosyncratic - a characteristic, habit, mannerism, or the like, that is peculiar to an individual. protract - to draw out or lengthen, esp. in time; extend the duration of; prolong.

Barron's 18th edition. SC question pg. 104 #20. The authority of voice in Frazer's writing strikes many readers today as ____________ colonialism; his prose seems as invulnerable and expansive as something on which the sun was presumed never to set. (a) consonant with (b) independent of © ambivalent toward (d) cognizant of (e) detrimental to

Hi, I've been reading Barron's 18th edition GRE test book. On page 100, the book says there is a new SC Question type. Has anyone taken the GRE and ran into this type of question? I've taken the PowerPrep practice tests and none of the tests had this type of question. Can anyone confirm if these types of questions exist on the test? Thanks!

I think the answer is (e) knot : macrame. A mosaic is made up of tiles :: A macrame is made up of knots.

Thanks genericname. How did you know that? :) I just googled it. The English language is not so easy - And it's my first & only language.

Thanks, fingure. Me too! Doesn't make sense..

Hi! I'm new here. I've been reading the posts and think this is an awesome site. I have about 2 months to prep for the GRE's - I take the GRE's mid August. I'm a little nervous as it's been 6 years since I graduated from undergrad. Any advice on how I should study is appreciated :) So, far I've reviewed PowerPrep. I'm reading Barron's GRE Test Prep book right now...completed chapters 1-5 today. Tomorrow I hope to get through 3 more chapters. I also bought the Princeton 2009 review with CD and I'll get started on that once I'm finished with Barron's. Next, I'm going to get the Nova bible - since I read on this website that I will definitely need that. Is there anything else you can suggest? Thanks in advance!

Hello all, I'm new to the forum, but I've been reading posts from here...very helpful I might say :) This is my first post & it's a question from Barron's GRE test prep (18th edition). What is the answer to the analogy question below? Pg. 83 Analogy Exercise B #15. PRIDE:LIONS (a) gaggle: geese (b) honor: theives © snarl: wolves (d) arrogance : kings (e) lair: bears I thought the answer was (d) arrogance : king, but when I looked up the answers in the back, the answer is (a). Does anyone know if this is the correct answer? It just doesn't make sense to me. Thanks! Happy 4th to everyone!