<p>How long do you have to prepare? If you have a while, it would be a good idea to read books are articles that use GRE words. For example, I read the Tale of Two Cities a while back which has plenty of such vocab although it is a bit long. You’ll find relevant vocab in more scholarly newspapers such as The New Yorker, Christian Science Monitor, New York Times, and National Review. If you come across words in your reading that you don’t know, obviously write them down and commit them to memory via flash cards or whatever mechanism you like to use for this purpose.</p>
<p>As for strategies, I consulted the Princeton Review GRE book for some basic strategies. I don’t follow their strategies to a T but they do have some good advice like putting words on a analogy question into a sentence. For example, if you have the base pair SAW : TOOL then “a SAW is a type of TOOL”. Now you just use the words “is a type of” to connect each of the options you are given, crossing out all the options that don’t work. You are left with the correct answer (hopefully) and you enter it and move on. </p>
<p>There are little tips like that that will help you move faster and more accurately that you’ll find in most GRE prep books. Besides that I don’t have any huge revelations for you. I scored a 660 Verbal on powerprep but I’ve been working on my vocab bit by bit for months now because I knew that would be an issue. Good luck.</p>