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  1. I created a multiplayer vocabulary quiz web application. It is live at grequiz.com. In this quiz, you challenge your opponent with a word and answer their challenge question. Whoever gets the highest score in a round of five wins the game. Check it out at grequiz.com. I would love your feedback.
  2. I created a multiplayer vocabulary quiz web application. It is live at grequiz.com. In this quiz, you challenge your opponent with a word and answer their challenge question. Whoever gets the highest score in a round of five wins the game. Check it out at grequiz.com. I would love your feedback.
  3. Hello Friends, I think the thread title must have made the my intentions very clear. I want your guidance on how to tame this Vocab beast in one month. I am scoring well in my Quants section (160/165+). The marks I loose in quants is usually a result of silly mistakes which I am trying to reduce by practicing more. However I am getting just 145-149 in my Verbals. I am doing well in RCs, but the SC and SEs are driving me nuts. Thanks to my poor vocab. I have literally mugged up the Barrons/Kaplans list (frequently occurring words) and many more, but the they dont seem to be of much help. Most of the times, I encounter new words in the test. Please help me out. I would be grateful to you for the help. As for the quants, I will help you with that!
  4. Hi, i think it will be great to have some1 to practice the vocab we are learning daily through voice chat. If any1 interested pls reply. Am from New Delhi, India with intermediate grasp on vocab.
  5. Let me start by saying that I am a GRE tutor, so it wouldn't be to relevant for me to post any information on "how I studied for the GRE," but I thought I would just post a few thoughts about the exam. I took it back in August, but since I just recently received my score I thought I would share a few observations... My perspective might be skewed, but although the test is supposed to be section adaptive, I didn't really notice the sections get noticeably harder. This was particularly true of the Quant section, the section that I thought would have a more obvious shift once I was facing the "harder" section. So prospective test takers should not read into the level of difficulty of the questions on a section....just do your best on don't think about that. Given that I have so much experience with the GRE, I took only one practice test prior to my exam, and that was really only to get familiar with the new features of the exam (skipping and marking questions, etc.). I must say, however, that on my first section (Verbal) I did not manage my time as well as I could have (given the opportunity to skip around and come back). I corrected that on the rest of the test, but I would urge other test takers to really practice with the new features (figure 4 or 5 practice tests at the least) so that you can learn to manage your time wisely (every question is worth the same amount, so it doesn't make sense to spend undue time on a question that you are struggling with). As I had expected, the vocab that was tested on the Verbal section did not consist of extremely difficult words. There were one or two words that I didn't know, but if you look at the sentence equivalence and text completion questions in the Official Guide you will see that it is really more about the reasoning aspects of those questions than about vocab (and this is really in line with the new direction that the GRE has taken). Some of the vocab that you see in the test prep books that are on the market is way over the top. For example, the ManhattanGRE book, which is a good book in some ways, uses words that are way too obscure and difficult in its drills. Even at the medium level, most of those words are just too hard and are unlikely to appear on the test. I'm not saying that you shouldn't study vocab, because there will be difficult words and vocabulary is relative anyway in that some people really have a very limited vocabulary and will need to some serious studying. I just wouldn't worry too much about some of the most difficult words that you see in test prep books, etc. and I would try to focus a little more on the critical thinking skills that are required on the Verbal questions. Finally, a word about the Writing section. I just recently tutored a person who felt that he had underperformed on the Writing section. After working with him, I realized that one problem was that he wasn't really following the directions. Be aware that a new aspect of the revised GRE is that the Issue and Argument essays have a variety of different "instructions prompts" and that the test makers expect you to read those carefully and follow the directions. So if the instructions tell you to consider the ways in which your point of view might be challenged, you should make an effort to do so. Anyway, hope that feedback helps....good luck to all of you prospective GRE test takers!
  6. I found this app Vocab Hero and it's really great for learning GRE vocabulary words if you have an Android device. It's basically a multiple choice quiz with "Who Wants to be a Millionaire"-style lifelines. Remembers words you got wrong. It even has normal flash card mode. Just thought you guys should know! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dangwu.vocabherolite&feature=more_from_developer
  7. [ATTACH=CONFIG]6549[/ATTACH] App Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wordLearner.Free Description: Word Learner helps you build and retain a strong vocabulary. Prepares you for competitive exams like GRE, CAT, CMAT, XAT, SAT, GMAT..etc.This free app has the following features: 1.Words categorized as Beginner/Expert. 2.Filter-Based Search Mode.(similar to a dictionary) 3.Daily Word Notifications- No more widgets required, instead get notified with a new word daily. 4.Learn Word Mode. 5.Test Mode - Test based on the words learnt by you. 6.Review List - Lets you easily access all the words you find difficult at one place. 7.Statistics regarding your performance. 8.Integrated with Wiktionary - Long press a word to get more details about it like Etymology(i.e word origin).
  8. Hi guys, I took GRE some time back and vocabulary was the most difficult part for me. From the standard list of words, there were a lot I remembered but a few which I could never remember. I searched for a website which could test me on the words I did not know more frequently than the words I knew. I couldn't find such a website. Then I decided to create one. And now I have: Vocabulary GRE. Based on your right and wrong answers, it identifies your strong and weak words and will ask you YOUR weak words more frequently. The website is absolutely free to use and does not have advertisements to distract you. I am not making any money out of this. My goal is to just make it easier for everyone else to learn these words. One thing I will definitely appreciate is feedback. If this method proves helpful, I will extend it to cover quant as well. [DELETED BY MODERATOR] Thank you. Regards, Neerav Mehta.
  9. I have posted this quiz, please try it out Sat Vocabulary . If you all like it then I will have more of them added. regards aqua
  10. hi there! I'm trying to find ANY downloadable audio for the vocab for the GRE. I tried to download one (the below) but it didn't work. I'm taking the revised GRE in two weeks and want to give the flashcards a rest and try some audio. any help would be amazing! also, if anyone can comment on if they found their test to be similar to the power prep or Kaplan books that would be appreciated immensely!!! roxy this is the one that didnt work for me: Guru's GRE WordList Homepage - Keywords : FREE GREWORDLIST , FREE GRE , GMAT , TOEFL MAT WORDLIST , FREE GRE , GMAT , TOEFL MAT WORD LIST , GRE , GMAT , TOEFL MAT WORDLIST for all , GURU 's GRE WORDLIST , everyones's GRE , GMAT , TOEFL MAT WORDLIST ,
  11. some interesting word histories: Guillotine The GUILLOTINE is something that was invented to replace older and harsher methods of execution but it became a terror in itself. It was in fact the device of execution during the French revolution. When the French revolution took place and the National assembly came into power, it ordered the setting up of a committee that would come up with a better method of execution and wished to replace decapitation with a sword or axe. The committee formed included Dr. Antoine Louis and Dr. Joespeh-Ignace Guillotin as members of the committee. It is the latter’s name that the device guillotine borrows. The device chosen by the committee borrowed the traditional Italian and Scottish designs and added a very sharp and heavy blade to it. This blade, placed at a height, would decapitate instantly and with complete certainty. Read further on: Guillotine: Killing at its worst | Wordpandit badger: How did this animal name come to be used as a verb? N the late 18th century, there was the common sport of badger-baiting in play. In this sport, dogs would be set upon badgers in an attempt to draw them from their burrows. The dogs would fight with them and eventually kill it. This “harassment” of innocent animals lent us the word “badger”. Thus, when a lawyer badgers a witness, he would force him or her into the corner till the time they agree to his version of events. Read further on: Badger : Badger : Annoying someone | Wordpandit bacchanalia: This is word of divine origin, with it being based on the name of the Roman God Bacchus. Bacchus is the Roman variant of the Greed god Dionysus. Dionysus, in Greek mythology, was the god of the winemaking and wine, and through the route of intoxication lead to ecstasy and liberation. And Bacchus takes over a similar role in Roman mythology. The term Bacchanalia is derived from the initiatory rites that were dedicated to Bacchus. In these ceremonies, there was an incorporation of carnality, sexually licentious behaviour, induced obviously through excessive drinking. Gradually, the cult of Bacchus drew the ire of the Roman authorities and more and more restrictions were placed on it. Read further on: Bacchanalia | Wordpandit Sybarite: Word History: Sybaris was an ancient Greek colony in Southern Italy. It was a flourishing trading centre, and its inhabitants put their considerable wealth to the service of unrestrained slef-indulgence. Their luxurious and debauched ways became a byword in the ancient world, and Greek Subarites ‘Inhabitant of Sybaris’ came to be synonymous with ‘pleasure-seeker,’, and also with ‘lecher’-both heterosexual and homosexual. The Englsih word has been derived from a Latin descendent, Sybarita, of the same and is rather toned down in comparison to the original word.
  12. [/url] some interesting word histories: Guillotine The GUILLOTINE is something that was invented to replace older and harsher methods of execution but it became a terror in itself. It was in fact the device of execution during the French revolution. When the French revolution took place and the National assembly came into power, it ordered the setting up of a committee that would come up with a better method of execution and wished to replace decapitation with a sword or axe. The committee formed included Dr. Antoine Louis and Dr. Joespeh-Ignace Guillotin as members of the committee. It is the latter’s name that the device guillotine borrows. The device chosen by the committee borrowed the traditional Italian and Scottish designs and added a very sharp and heavy blade to it. This blade, placed at a height, would decapitate instantly and with complete certainty. Read further on: http://wordpandit.com/2011/guillotine/ badger: How did this animal name come to be used as a verb? N the late 18th century, there was the common sport of badger-baiting in play. In this sport, dogs would be set upon badgers in an attempt to draw them from their burrows. The dogs would fight with them and eventually kill it. This “harassment” of innocent animals lent us the word “badger”. Thus, when a lawyer badgers a witness, he would force him or her into the corner till the time they agree to his version of events. Read further on: Badger : Badger : Annoying someone | Wordpandit bacchanalia: This is word of divine origin, with it being based on the name of the Roman God Bacchus. Bacchus is the Roman variant of the Greed god Dionysus. Dionysus, in Greek mythology, was the god of the winemaking and wine, and through the route of intoxication lead to ecstasy and liberation. And Bacchus takes over a similar role in Roman mythology. The term Bacchanalia is derived from the initiatory rites that were dedicated to Bacchus. In these ceremonies, there was an incorporation of carnality, sexually licentious behaviour, induced obviously through excessive drinking. Gradually, the cult of Bacchus drew the ire of the Roman authorities and more and more restrictions were placed on it. Read further on: Bacchanalia | Wordpandit Sybarite: Word History: Sybaris was an ancient Greek colony in Southern Italy. It was a flourishing trading centre, and its inhabitants put their considerable wealth to the service of unrestrained slef-indulgence. Their luxurious and debauched ways became a byword in the ancient world, and Greek Subarites ‘Inhabitant of Sybaris’ came to be synonymous with ‘pleasure-seeker,’, and also with ‘lecher’-both heterosexual and homosexual. The Englsih word has been derived from a Latin descendent, Sybarita, of the same and is rather toned down in comparison to the original word.
  13. New vocabulary theme--tricky words! As many of you know, I've been teaching for going on 20 years now (wow), and have been prepping people for various standardized tests (SAT, GMAT, GRE, SSAT, HSPT, TOEFL, to name the "big" ones) for almost as long. Over the years, I've noticed that there are certain words that, whenever they show up, tend to trick people largely because they look so much like other words or because they would seem to mean something other than what they actually mean. I've kept lists of these words for a long time now, and this week, I'll be drawing from one of these lists. Today's word is causal. (What do you think that means?) SAT vocab (tricky words!): causal Before you look at the definition, take five seconds to ask yourself what you think this word means. Part of Speech: adj Pronunciations: KOZZ-ull IPA: ˈkɔ.zəl Definition: relating to or being the cause of something (Ex: a demonstrated causal relationship between lack of education and poverty). Note: Be careful! Do NOT confuse this word with "casual", which means informal or relaxed. Example: "Don't go out in the cold without a coat! You'll get sick!" How many times have you heard this? Many a parent seems to believe that there is a direct, causal relationship between going outside in the cold and getting sick. But is there?
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