Im somewhat new to studying for the GRE so i’m still trying to get a handle on understanding the full scope of how much I need to know. Im just finishing week 2 of the 8 week plan, and on several of the bigger vocab quiz videos it mentions studying synonyms. Ive been doing well with the quizlet vocab decks, but should I be supplementing these with the synonyms list found at the bottom of the vocab section of the website? I didn’t see anything in the 2 month plan about studying the synonym list so I just wanted to make sure i’m not missing out on something i’m supposed to be doing. If I should be studying the synonyms list, any tips on the best way to study such a giant list? Thanks!
Stick to one list at first and after completing it then you move to the synonym list and you will notice you can recognize most of the words in there but unless you are aiming for a very high verbal score I will not waste my time doing the synonyms/study vocab .
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Synonyms kind of come naturally the more you do them. For example, you’ll start running into tons of synonyms just by doing sentence equivalence questions
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Hi @gregmat
I just completed the Day-5 verbal session -5. As you said we can find synonyms from google. So is there any way to find out GRE-Style synonyms from them as there are so many
A lovely user made a GRE synonym list.
You can find it here (at the very bottom of the page):
https://new.gregmat.com/vocab
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Does anyone have suggestions on how to pair synonyms rapidly? Or just practice questions that show synonym pairs? SE questions are so rare, and its hard to practice pairing under timed constrains.
Studying synonyms(boosting your vocab) and getting good at math strategy will sure make you better at SE’s