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It is divided into manageable sections and is quite useful in learning more words. A very helpful book for learning vocab.
Highly recommend it. This book organizes frequently appearing GRE words alphabetically, shares example sentences and related ideas to improve GRE takers' memory on each one of those words.
Words like "itinerary," "odyssey" and "dormant" are just a few examples of obvious words that someone looking to go to grad school should already know. The typos also created confusion and weren't helpful from a mnemonic (one word I learned from the book).
The secondary meanings / uses of some words were also provided which was rather insightful. learning perspective.All the same, I did appreciate the contextual sentences provided as they made the book fun and entertaining to work through.
I'm still studying for the GRE, so I have yet to see if this book was actually helpful; but based on my experience going through the exercises, this book is for people who learn by memorization and have a limited vocabulary. Also, I found some of the definitions to be poorly worded, so I ended up having to use online dictionaries to better comprehend some word meanings.The word roots section proved not so helpful as many of the exercises include words for which the definition can't be directly guessed or implied from the root's definition.
There are also brief summaries of academic phrases, concepts, key figures, etc that could potentially be helpful in preparing for the GRE Verbal Section. I already knew 75% of the words.
That being the case, I'm not quite sure why the author chose to include them.
Also, since it bridges over SAT and GRE vocab, I think it might be beneficial for the CAT test, which begins with easiest qeustion and adapts to your ability to answer them correctly. It laid a good fundation before I turned to crack question types. It may also keep your morale high from the very beginning, too. The words in this book are not too difficult,leveled between SAT and GRE. It worked for me as a good start, particularly as I found the words are useful ones, frequently appeared in not only GRE tests, but also in daily newspapers and pro-academic journals.
If you are an International student and you need to improve your vocabulary and use of GRE words, buy this book. very good book. My English vocabulary has improved.
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