Start teaching GRE Vocabulary, you learned enough!

Hi this is an article that exclusively deals with learning GRE Vocabulary faster and better. After reading this blog you will not only be able to crack the exam like a tornado or tycoon but will also be able to train fellow aspirants. You will help them by sharing all these wonderful vocabulary learning techniques that will help you memorize a huge, huge, huge number of words effectively.

Are you ready for the challenge? Ok get, set, go!!

You better start reading! Reading maketh a man! We all need to remember and re-implement this proverb by making it a regular habit. A well read person has lot may words at his/her disposal. He not only knows the words but can effectively put them into context while writing and speaking. Does he not have an edge that way? Many of us do not read. Leave alone reading when we find a tough word we close the book/newspaper/window and walk away! That’s really bad!

When you find a tough word acquaint yourself with that then and there. Don’t wait for the most opportune moment to dawn upon you. Just get that dictionary lying in your closet and hunt for the meaning. Spend some time with the word, trying to establish a relation between the word and the context.

Mind-blowing results: Are you feckless about new words?? Hmmm what do you do when you hear a new word from your teacher/boss? Feel guilty that you do not know it? Or fall a prey to inferiority complex? Well, do not let those two things effect you. I mean guilt and inferiority complex.

If you do not know the meaning of a particular word you have not committed a sin. Just know the meaning right away and put it in different contexts at least 5 times. The word dares not leave your memory. Try it and see, the results will astonish you.

Pamper and pet the words you learned: Human memory is more volatile than any other chemical. You need to keep visiting and revisiting the new words you learned. Spend sometime with them, understand them, pamper them, and pet them. This you need to do in order to keep your relation with the word in tact.

Fall in love with the words you learned: What do you do to impress your beloved? Get gifts? Write poems? Do stunts? That’s what words want you to do for them. Use them in different contexts. Blast your imagination thinking where all you can use this word. Talk about the word with family and friends (you will hardly spend 5-10 seconds doing that) and the word becomes your faithful accompanist. I can already see you gasping there!!

You are a magician!! Hey did anyone tell you that you are a magician. There is a small world of magic within your brain. You can many a time create wonderful things in your brain to remember words. Words that actually trouble you; I mean words that are tough to remember.

Let me give an example: There’s a word hermetic which means airtight, sealed. You may have some difficulty remembering it. What you can do is relate the word to a word close to its spelling. You can think of ‘hermit’. A hermit is a saint an ascetic who abandons worldly pleasures and stays far away from mankind meditating and contemplating. Is he not closed away, shut away from the rest of the world? Is airtight just not that?

You can paint a cute little scenery of woods, a small wooden cottage and a hermit meditating, on the canvas of your mind. Just imagine that for a while. I swear you will never forget these two words.

Become an archeologist! Ahem! Well only then you will start exploring for words that you never knew so far. Tell yourself that you are going to learn 5 new words this week and use all the skills that are mentioned above this paragraph. I wish you success in your new endeavor as an archeologist (smiles!!)

Party with words! What you can do is organize some weekly get-togethers with your study groups and play games like word building, scrabble, etc. You can also organize word quizzes and share with your friends the words you learned and vice-versa.

Practice makes perfect: This is the mantra to success. There is no shortcut to the kingdom of success. Once you reach, there is no returning either. You can learn from various resources. Books, online support, libraries and tests cater to your requirement eternally. The sources available for practice are just unlimited. You can keep chiseling and refining your skills perpetually, reasonably there is no end to a process like that.

What I suggest is read all these articles on our blog and keep updating your vocabulary running through our word lists (there are a dozens of them on the site). Icing on the cake is the tests segment. Take tests on a daily basis. These tests help you score your performance. Best thing is you can take these tests in complete isolation. No mortal soul will comment negatively on you performance. Great it sounds, doesn’t it?

‘I am unable to remember words’, ‘I can’t do this’, I can’t do that!’ well we are no agony aunts to pamper you and your weaknesses with some ineffective counseling.

We are globally recognized goal-oriented trainers and expect the same level of commitment from you. We don’t propound endless theories, we make you all learn effective methods and implement them even more effectively. If you have the stamina we desire then you have stopped at the right place. Let’s call it a mutual success then!

If you are aspiring for a perfect 800/800 in GRE Verbal, this article is for you. Implementing all the above said techniques will land you on your destination for sure.

Wishing you success as always!!

Regards,

Anu Veluri

Manager- learnwordlist.com