How To Master GRE Vocabulary | Expert Tips & Tricks

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If you're studying for the GRE, you know how important a strong vocabulary is to your success on the Verbal section. Text Completion and Sentence Equivalence, which directly test vocabulary knowledge, make up about half of all Verbal questions. And that isn't taking into account the many Reading Comprehension passages and questions that feature difficult vocabulary that can impact comprehension.

But more than that, based on PrepScholar research, we believe nearly 50% of Verbal questions tagged as “hard” by ETS test your vocabulary knowledge. These questions often feature words that are considered low-frequency (or not regularly used in everyday life) and known by few native English speakers and even fewer non-native speakers.

So how can we overcome this major hurdle to reaching our goal GRE score? In this video, we'll talk about
1. The one thing more important on vocab questions than vocab itself
2. How to guess a word's meaning accurately (most of the time)
3. If you are going to study vocab, which words to study
4. And how to study vocabulary words for understanding, retention, and application