HOW TO LEARN

GRE WORDS

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Before Starting Your Vocabulary Preparation

Do You Plan for Vocabulary Building?

Before you take a decision, understand the following.
What is the importance of vocabulary building?
How can vocabulary help in overall verbal preparation?
How words can help in Reading Comprehension, Text Completion and Sentence
Equivalence?

Do You Know About The Techniques For Remembering Words?

Before you take a decision, understand the following.
What is root word analysis?
What are mnemonics?
How can mnemonics and audio pronunciation help you retain words better?

Do You Know About Visual Aids And Their Use?

Consider this before starting preparation for gre words
What are visual aids?
How can these visual aids be used to remember words?

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Before Starting Your Vocabulary Preparation

Do You Know How To Link Words With Mnemonics?

Consider this before starting your preparation
How to link pictures and mnemonics to words?
How to remember words based on the use of mnemonics?

How To Retain The Newly Learnt Words?

Consider this before starting your preparation
What kind of tests will help me retain words better?
How many tests/practice questions will be sufficient?

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The 3 Stages of Learning a Word

The Stranger

Knowing a Word
Meaning
Parts of Speech
Usage

Understanding the Word

The Acquaintance

Explain the meaning of the word in

your words
Categorize the word

The Friend

Applying the word

Use the word in speaking
or/and writing
Differentiate the word from
other related words

For understanding purposes we have divided the

stage of recognizing and remembering the words,
into three categories

STRANGER

ACQUAINTANCE

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FRIEND

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The 3 Stages of Learning a Word
Lets take an Example

EXPROPRIATE

The Stranger Phase

Meaning : To officially take away

private property from its owner for
public use
Parts of Speech : Verb

The Acquaintance Phase

Understanding the word

By expropriating, we acquire personal
property officially from its owners for a
common purpose.
The act of acquiring the land for laying
a road or building a dam is
expropriation.
Classify the word
Words related to personalities
Words related to interpersonal
relations
It will help you get a better
understanding of words since you learn
the words along with other related
words.

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Usage :
The land was expropriated by the
state.
Legislation was introduced to
expropriate land from absentee
landlords and redistribute it to
peasants.
The Bolsheviks expropriated the
property of the landowners.

The Friend Phase

Applying the word

The recent revision of Government
land value for property is a bliss for
the people who are affected by
expropriation of lands for widening
the national highways. Now, they
will get a lump sum amount as
compensation.
Following a strong reaction to the
expropriation of agricultural lands
for expanding the international
airport, the government

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Tips for Remembering words

Start enjoying the act of learning new words.

Relate the words with the pictures.

Associate the words with the words related to it (create a web).

Start using the words in your everyday life. Use them in your emails to your SFAs.
Revise the words regularly.

VISUAL AIDS
Relate the words with pictures.

Visual long term memory has a massive storage capacity for object details.
You can remember words with the help of pictures associated with.

PRO-TIP
Learn and retain words with the help of pictures, visual mnemonics, audio pronunciation,
root word analysis, and practice lessons. Strengthen your vocabulary on the go with
WordBot.

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Tips for Remembering words

Remembering Words Using

WORD ASSOCIATIONS

Lets take an Example

PHILANTHROPIST

1
By understanding the root
of the word, we can guess
philanthropist refers to a
lover of mankind.

It is derived from Greek

words Phil (loving) &
Anthropos (mankind).

2
3

Since we know these two

roots, we can easily
guess meaning of a
number of words created
based on these roots.
BIBLIOPHILE

CLASSIC STYLE
Words can be remembered using
Definition
Usage
Synonyms
Antonyms
Pronunciation
Picture Clues

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PHILATELY
ANTHROPOMORPHIC

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Tips for Remembering words

Remembering Words Using

SHORT STORY FORMAT

Most Important Words
Most Used Words
Critical Words
GRE Words used in a context
Repetition of GRE words for better retention
Learn words with context
Learn how to define words with context
No more dictionary needed

Make the words your own. Use the daily

learnt words. (Doesnt matter if you learn
3-5 or 10 words daily)
Read up magazines, weekly and monthly
issues and take the words, understand
the context they are used in and finally
use those in your everyday speak for
better revision and retention.
Make your own flashcards with the help
of Quizlet or Wordnik with the words you
learnt from various magazines or
newspapers.

Most Important, Most

Used & Critical Words

Repetition of
words for
better
retention

Short
Story
Format

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GRE Words
used in a
context

LINKING & VISUALISATION

Remembering words using Mnemonics

EXTIRPATE

Extra-Pate

VOCIFEROUS

Voci + Ferous

To Eliminate

Pate is belly in Hindi.

Imagine a pot bellied
exercising, so hes trying to get
rid of his extra pate hence
extirpate or to eliminate can be
easily linked with that visual.

Vehement, Outspoken, Vocal

Voci can be equated to Vocal and
Ferous can be equated to Furious.
So imagine a very furious vocal
person (like Arnab Goswami!) &
you got the context to remember
Vociferous i.e. outspoken

VAPID

Va + Pid

Dull, not interested

Pid sounds a lot like Pic. Now a
Pic or picture has color. So, lets
assume Pid represents colors.
Lets assume that Va is derived
from Vacuum.
So we have got something like vacuum taking away
all the colors from the pic. In other words making it
dull, so Vapid is dull! Vapid can also be associated to
Rapid, in fact can be thought of as an opposite, so
Rapid is fast while Vapid is slow and dull!

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LINKING & VISUALISATION

Remembering words using Mnemonics

IMPOVERISH

To make poor

Im + Pover + ish
Impoverish = Im + Poor + ish
or Im made poor. Hence Impoverish
is to make poor!

BELIE

Be + Lie

To give a false impression.

= Be + Lie
you are giving off a lie
i.e. a false impression.

PRO-TIP
Learn and retain words with the help of pictures, visual mnemonics, audio pronunciation,
root word analysis, and practice lessons. Strengthen your vocabulary on the go with
WordBot.

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