preparing for the verbal GRE

dfh932
Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:08:21 +0000

yes i would say definitely start now with the vocabulary. Kaplan has a list of 200 words that could appear on the GRE, and I found that at least a couple of those words were on my test.
Also, one thing that helped me I think was I now get Mariam-Webster’s (m-w.com) “word of the day” in my inbox. Each word comes with an audio file of the word, pronounciation and meaning/history. I downloaded like 150 of those short audio files and put them on my Ipod. Then I listened to them when i was on a walk, in the car, traveling, etc. if you could do that for 2 years, your vocabulary would surely improve.
Also try to start reading the New York Times, the Nation, Mother Jones (those are liberal publications—but there are just as many conservative weekly newsmagazines out there if you want) and read them every week to expand your vocab. I find that many, many GRE words are in publications like this.
Hope this helps.