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How to build vocabulary

How to build vocabulary

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How to build vocabulary

- [Voiceover] One of the most important skills for the GRE's verbal reasoning section is vocabulary. Not only do you need to know the definitions of words for fill-in-the-blank style questions but a strong vocab. will also improve your reading comprehension. In this video I'll talk about my favorite ways to study words. So the words that the GRE will test are commonly used in normal academic discourse and well-written publications. So for this reason, learning words for the GRE will improve your reading comprehension for graduate school and even beyond. So one thing I highly recommend is making your own flashcards. On one side, the word with its pronunciation and you wanna have the pronunciation on there so you can use the word in your daily speech, that'll help you remember it. Then on the other side part of speech, brief definition, a mnemonic, a sample sentence using the mnemonic and any synonyms you also wanna learn. You can look up synonyms for a word using an online dictionary…

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