Vocab advice

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Hi, so if I remember correctly in one of the early videos greg talks about magoosh’s vocab list and advices to skip the advanced vocab as they are extra stress. I did improve with Magoosh’s list but still lost on those tough ones or where I just couldn’t recall the meaning or got confused. So, for the re-test I plan to do GREG’s list as well and revise the magoosh’s list, but should I still skip those advanced ones? Any thoughts?

@gregmat please advice. I improved from 152 to 156; 19/40 to 25/40. Have to get 160 atleast.

Also, does the greg’s list include those ETS most frequent words from the big book and the OGs? I am sure there must be lot of overlap though.

Thank you so much!!

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If you couldn’t recall, I’d suggest just revise the ones you’ve already done. There’s no limit to the number of words one can do, plus the GRE is getting even more logic based now(as opposed to vocab based), so I’d suggest focus more on the strategies and revising the words you’ve already done.

Yep there must be some overlap but the most frequent words list is solely from ETS material. Greg’s 840 have non-ETS sources as well as per my understanding!

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Yeah, I’d skip Magoosh advanced words. I would instead just start to memorize the 840 on my list or another list like PowerScore or PrepScholar

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Thanks Greg!!!