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Know Your Roots
Birds of a Feather
Vocabulary
Test Knowledge
Practice Questions
100
anomaly
an/without and (h)om/same
100
aberrant, abnegate, abstruse, aperture, arcane
abstruse and arcane (difficult to understand)
100
wanting
lacking
100
True or false: You have one 20 minute break after the third section
False; one 10 minute break after the third section; 1 minute breaks after each section
100
#1 on p. 30
(d)
200
catholic
hol/whole
200
bombastic, churlish, espouse, sinuous, stalwart
espouse and stalwart (assist)
200
supplant
take the place or move into the position of
200
Highest score you can get in each section of the GRE
What is 170 for verbal reasoning and quantitative reasoning; and 6 for analytical writing
200
#4 on page 31
(d)
300
circuit
circu/around and it/way, journey
300
inhibit, retrograde, laud, venerate, veracious
laud and venerate (praise)
300
incorrigible
impervious to correction by punishment
300
Three ways to strengthen your vocabulary
Vocabulary journal, flashcards, drawing pictures
300
#7 on p. 32
(c) and (d)
400
apocryphal
apo/away and crypt/hidden
400
equity, peremptory, rhetoric, strident, tyrannical
peremptory and tyrannical (dictatorial)
400
iconoclast
somebody who attacks cherished beliefs or institution
400
Two types of analytical writing prompts
Issue and argument
400
#10 on p. 33
(b)
500
indolence
in/not, without and dol/to suffer, to pain, to grieve
500
cavil, harangue, martinet, verbose, slothful
cavil, harangue, martinet (nag)
500
mercurial
(of a person) prone to unexpected and unpredictable changes in mood
500
Three types of questions you will encounter on the verbal reasoning section
Text completion, sentence equivalence, and reading comprehension
500
#17 on p. 35
(a) and (f)