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Magoosh GRE Vocabulary Word List
This eBook is a compilation of the most popular Revised GRE vocabulary word list posts from the Magoosh GRE blog. We’ve found that students learn vocabulary best when the words are presented in a fun, creative, and intelligent way: we’ve done our best to assemble interesting lists to help you absorb the words in a way that will stick with you so that you’re as prepared as possible on the day of your exam.
You’ll see that these lists definitely don’t look like your typical, dry GRE word lists, and it’s because we want you to learn vocabulary words in context—the new GRE’s Sentence Equivalence questions, Text Completions, and even the Reading Comprehension passages are testing knowledge of words in context and proper usage, so rote memorization of words and definitions won’t be of much help!
If you’re new to the Revised GRE and want to know more about the exam in general, check out “A Complete Guide to the Revised GRE”: http://magoosh.com/gre/gre-ebook for more information.
You’ll see that these lists definitely don’t look like your typical, dry word lists, and it’s because we want you to learn vocabulary words in context—the new GRE’s Sentence Equivalence questions, Text Completions, and even the Reading Comprehension passages are testing knowledge of words in context and proper usage, so rote memorization of words and definitions won’t be of much help!. We have some general tips and strategies about how to best use the lists in this eBook (as well as some warnings about types of studying methods to avoid!) so be sure to read our “How to Use GRE Vocabulary Lists” and “Making Words Stick: Memorizing Vocabulary” sections before you begin. At the end, we also have some recommendations for other great reading material that will help you pick up vocabulary words in a fun way to have productive “study breaks”.
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