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Tham khảo tài liệu 'gre verbal section 2', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Tip When working on your vocabulary remember to focus first on roots prefixes and suffixes. You will be pleasantly surprised to see how quickly learning these will increase the size of your vocabulary and Spelling Success in 20 Minutes a Day which makes it easy to boost your vocabulary and your Verbal section score. Try these strategies to help build your vocabulary for the GRE 1. Practice determining the meaning of unfamiliar words in context. 2. Maintain your own vocabulary list and review it regularly. 3. Study prefixes suffixes and word roots. Many GRE-level words have Latin or Greek word roots. Knowing these word bases and common beginnings and endings can give you an edge in determining the meaning of unfamiliar words. Think It Through At least as important as the size of your vocabulary however is your ability to use words as logical tools. In other words the GRE assesses your ability to think clearly and logically. As you have progressed through school you have moved from memorizing facts to researching and organizing them to interpreting and expanding them. In graduate school you will be required both to evaluate others ideas and arguments and to generate your own. Authors often present ideas in an artful fashion perhaps to disguise their arguments weaknesses. You will need to lift the curtains of artifice and peer through to the essence of the arguments. The GRE s Verbal section therefore is designed to assess your skill with words. Whether you are comparing concepts analogies contrasting concepts antonyms deducing meaning from available clues sentence completion questions or interpreting and extending meanings reading comprehension questions you are being asked to use words as logical tools. Fortunately there are guidelines for these skill sets. This chapter lays out those guidelines for you. You will learn attack strategies for each of the four types of questions as well as techniques for questions that seem to resist analysis. With practice these .