340 GRE Vocabulary: My Method for Remembering New Words
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- Опубликовано: 8 июл 2024
- Everyone knows that one of the quickest ways to improve your GRE Verbal Score is to expand your vocabulary.
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New words help, of course, with Sentence Equivalence questions and Fill in the Blank questions, but they also help occasionally with reading comprehension, when a key word in the conclusion of a text can change the meaning of a whole paragraph.
I used these methods to boost my GRE vocab, and get a 170 in GRE Verbal
Method 1: Create a nickname for the word, that links to the definition.
Harangue: a scolding or a long and intense verbal attack; diatribe.
What are some appropriate words that link the definition to the sound of the word? Maybe ‘anger’ or ‘argue’
So, my nickname might be ‘to harangue is to angry-argue.’
Insipid: Lacking vigour or interest
For this word, I would think of the word ‘sip’. You often sip a drink instead of gulping it if you are not sure about the flavour or whether you like it. If it lacks any interest for you, you ‘sip-it.’ That’s my nick-name for it ‘sip-it’ - sounds close to insipid, no?
Egregious: conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
Let’s make up someone called ‘Greg’, who behaves really badly. Greg is awful and outrageous. His behaviour is ‘e-greg-ious’, ‘egregious’!
Epicure: a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment; a person with refined taste in wine and food
An epicure is someone who enjoys only epic stuff, epic food, epic wine. ‘Epic-ure!’
Plaintive: expressing sorrow
Someone who expresses sorrow might well be sad because of a complaint they have. You could almost say that they are ‘complaint-ive’. Plaintive is an adjective about being mournful and pitiful, so imagine someone complaining in a really sad and pitiful way.
But what do I do if I can’t think of a nick-name for a word on my word list?
Method 2: Etymology. Knowing about etymology has helped me appreciate word meanings so much more that it has made me love learning new words.
Etymology is the study of the origin of words. Basically, why do we use that collection of sounds to represent that concept.
When a bad thing happens, why do we say it is a disaster?
To find out, I use a great dictionary called the Online Etymology Dictionary. And no, I am not sponsored by them, unfortunately. Other dictionaries also often give the etymology of a word down beneath the definition.
Presage: a foreboding about what is about to happen
Pre- means ‘before’, just like the words ‘prevent’ or ‘preliminary’. ‘Sage’ comes from wisdom, like the word ‘sage’ or ‘sagacious’ meaning wise. So, having wisdom before the event, perhaps before something goes wrong, is to presage the event.
Privation: a state of extreme poverty
The origin of the word comes from taking away what is privately owned, linked to ‘deprive’ or ‘deprivation’. This helps to remember that unfortunate people can end up in a horrible state of privation.
Berserk: out of control with anger or excitement; wild or frenzied.
This is actually an Old Norse word, from Scandinavia. It comes from the words ‘bear’ and ‘coat’ - warriors who fought like bears, with maybe a bearskin on their backs. If you go berserk, you really go wild like a Viking.
The words in the video are from the Economist: gre.economist.com/gre-advice/...
And this, tougher list:
www.scribd.com/doc/13531332/1...
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I literally don’t mind if you do a 1hr session of your own nickname for GRE vocabs like u did with the 1hr vocab test. It’s prob the only video on youtube that I sat through an entire hr for. Keep up in what you’re doing and I love your channel. Personally, I don’t think you will have competition if you keep it up.
Might do that!
@@TheTestedTutor please do so
@@ChitralPatil yes
You deserve much more subscribers Sir!!!
Thank you Devesh! Do share the videos and get the word out!
Absolutely love it! ❤️
Brilliant! I am getting excited to take the GRE- thank you!
Hi Philip, I'm so grateful to have come across all your amazing videos before I took the GRE again. I was stuck at V 152 in my last two trials, which were a few marks short from my target score. After going through your videos, I managed to get a 160, which was actually higher than I expected. Couldn't thank you enough for your great teaching!
I just started following your videos right now i can say there is no nonsense. On point keep them coming and thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Thanks a ton, sir ❤️
Thank you for your time and effort, Found it truly handy...
Hi! You are so amazing. Your strategies of learning gre help me a lot. i have found your techniques Learning new words, passage reading is very effective. Thank you a lot for your efforts!
This is brilliant, thanks
best method on memorizing
gre words! thank u so much sir
One of the very few channels I absolutely love and would recommend to anyone and everyone who enjoy learning words. Please continue the good work 👍
Thanks Mitali!
I dont know if someone has told you this before, but you're a good human. You're not minding to share your intellect to others and thats big :)
Thanks so much for your videos. They are very helpful
It's 2:52 in the morning, and I am so astounded to know that eradicate is ex + radix. Thanks for your advice!
You are wonderful and professional
LOVE THIS ! it makes learning more fun.
You rock! This is extremely helpful!
amazing indeed
The best GRE channel ever, thank you so much. your videos are helping me a lot.
Thanks so much Eli!
Thank you so much for your help...
My pleasure Anubhav!
This is really helpful! Thanks a lot.
Hey Philip, yours is the most amazing channel I came across on RUclips searching for GRE strategies. You have explained quantitative and verbal in much lucid way which makes it more interesting. Keep going. Thank you so much for sharing easy strategies which would help not only for GRE but also in long run.
Wow, thank you so much Achaleshwari! So kind of you
Loved the methods
Thank you, Sir.
You are very welcome
I really appreciate your pointers and great advice! I am studying for my second attempt at the AFOQT. Your lessons are already making a huge difference!
Thanks Austin
your videos are great! love the way you are able to distill these concepts
Means a lot Joe!
very helpful, thank you
Your videos are really supportive, got 2 months to prepare and i'm really glad i found this channel!!!!!
Hope it's going well Simran!
The etymology idea is brilliant!
Thanks!
You're the best!
You are incredible! That's how i learnt at school too! :)
Awesome video and great work on your part!! Just keep it up. I have been on a roll watching all videos on your channel!
Keep going and thank you!
Just ONE DAY after watching this video I have memorized way more words in one day than I have been the past month. Thank you so much for the tips! Your videos are the BEST! Love the math ones too, they have been so helpful!
Wow, well done Guilia!
Loved the Vid.
Your videos are amazing! I'm going to suggest your videos to everyone I know who will take the exam in the near future!
Wow, thank you FM!
I've been able to retain most of my vocabulary words through your videos and relative nemonics. Your tips are so unique and one can easily comprehend. Thank you so much! Hope to see your following expand.
Me too Debbie and thank you again for your amazing comments
@@TheTestedTutor my pleasure!
This is hands-down the best method for memorizing new words. Mnemonic dictionary is helpful but I think it's better to try and come up with your own first. I have several lists and even when I don't look at one of them for days, my brain easily remembers the mnemonics whenever I do get back to it. Thanks for all your great content - your reading comprehension videos were the best I've found, too. :)
That means a lot Sara, thank you
I really like your videos. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. 🙏🙏
Glad you like them Kirti!
Basically I am back with to this video just to tell you how much I have improved. I have watched quite a few videos and all of them were helpful. Thank you so much for making Verbal Analysis perspicuous to understand. I feel really confident for Verbal and quants sections now. Thanks Philip : ))
Thank you so much Pratik :)
thanks a lot for sharing this worderful methods
Thanks!
Thankyou ❤️
This is really helpful. ❤
What a great sir. I'll apply but i also applied Nickname.
Very helpful tips
Thanks a lot !!!
No problem Go Abroad!
Those are very good methods! very helpful thanks a lot.
🙂
thank you for your work! appreciated a lot :)
Thank you 💓
Welcome!
This helped me!
Thank you bro
this helped me! Thanx a lot!!
Thank you so much for this kind comment Vartika!
You're amazing
Thanks Philip. That's an amazing trick there
Glad you liked it!
I cant thank you enough❤️
Good luck studying for the GRE everyone! 👏
I like your vocab study methodologies, keep it up bro!
Thanks keep going!!🌸
I will. Thank you Farida
Das ist am besten Methode 👌
U are great....I am watching yr video....alot..
I will start GRE prepn from 2022
You are very perspicacious!
wonderful
HELPING A LITTLE BIT
Hey! Yes it helps alot. Thank you
Glad it helped!
very helpful
Really helpful 👍
Thanks again Yasir! Let me know anything you may be struggling with.
Helpful 😊
Really awesome video man!
For Spanish speakers, this is even easier because there are also words rooted in Latin that link that sounds and also means the same thing. For example “deportment” and “porta” for behavior… “facilitate” and “fácil”…. “Salutory” and “salud”…
this is helpful ! :) I need it as my exam is in 3 weeks
sir u r awesome and yr tricks are really very helpful a great.Please carry on helping us by creating such good videos.
Thank you, I will Venus
Helping!! Still waiting for you to post study schedule video. I only got 1.5month
good content sir
For me: when I used etymology to create a nickname will a similar root I remember so much better.
Beautiful
Thank you
I am glad I came across your channel, was struggling with memorizing new words. I had a diagnostic test before, will check all the videos and see how my score improves after. Thank you !
I want the hour long episode of you discussing the etymology of your favorite words!! I swear I will pay your tutor fees!!
Haha, will do Chase
I am pleading you to do more videos sentence correction and Critical Reading questions
People who are plaintive to the effort to increase their vocabulary even after watching your video are egregious.
Haha, thanks Gautam!
great stuff
awesome stuff!
Thanks Aakanksha!
The best ever
omg i just love your videos😂 it got me at greg
Amazing
10 hours ..I would listen to this for 24 hrs
For sure
I'm doing the GRE in two weeks. I easily scored 8.0 in the IELTS but still struggle with the GRE vocabulary. Your videos are really helpful, like really. Thanks for all your efforts.
Thanks Mustafa
The 1st method is similar to mnemonics. Actually there is a website mnemonics dictionary, it's quite helpful. Example: repudiate =reputation+ate= disown or cast off or renounce. I know it's not the correct way but try out you can remember words easily.
Thanks Haleema, I should do a video on that!
i find these two methods very helpful! thanks for sharing.
Also i would have sat and watch the whole video if you kept making nicknames for vocabulary
I will do that then!
Great video tnx
So nice of you
Hey, Philip! I'm from Bangladesh, and I'll hopefully be sitting for GRE this October, which is about less than 3 months from now. I can relate to you so much! Learning vocabs has indeed been a wonderful and fun journey for me so far.
I'll get back to you when I crack the exam. Thank you!
Great! Man! I am also from Bangladesh and going to sit for gre in this october!
Best of luck, brother!
what did you get?
@@aslanmmmdov8300 314.
Awesome
The photo behinds you shows how smart you were back then 🙃
Haha
My man has been preparing for the GRE for his entire life
Um I have my exam in 2 days and I literally don’t know what I am gonna do :( my scores in the diagnostics is very bad, but your video motivated me for sure
Do your best and good luck Aarsh! You can always redo it if needed. Thank you for the kind words.
It's too good of you
Very helpful 😁
I have to take my GRE soon. Hopefully I will score good 🙂
Thanks Cassandra! Good luck and let us know.
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informative video
Glad you think so!
Another good trick is too use this word in context couple of times. Say to your friend I am ravenous or effects of Covid are imponderable.
Even if you sound pretentious that will definitely help remember.
haha nice yury