GRE® - Best word memorizing techinque!

[Manish]

Here is how I was memorizing the words. First of all, I make group of all similar words and then besides it all opposite words. So what i mean is, write the word in 1st column, its synonyms in 2nd column and antonyms in 3rd column. This will be useful to you when recalling one word, you will also remember the links to that word, i.e. its synonyms and antonyms. Also after memorizing this, you will complete remembering of not one word, but a group of word that can be of 5-25 words each in this fashion!! I think I am confusing you. Let's see an example :

This is the perfect way to rememba so many words within few days. Memorizing one-by-one words could hardly make up with 15-20 words a day. By the above method you can easily memorize 100-120 words a day.

I have already prepared all this words in a pdf file, which consists of nearly 107 pages. If you guys are interested in buying it, rather than making it your own and wasting precious time, just navigate to my blogspot : gre-stuff.blogspot.com

[Casanova]

I 'm interested! Do you wanna sell it?

[Yankee]

[Manish]

You are right sir. It could be better to write in that way. But I had did all synonyms and antonyms just for GRE purpose and not considered to be in same form. All I wanna do was to categorize it so that at the time I can recall the meanings with antonyms. (And that rememba was an intentional mistake )

[Yankee]

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Intentional mistake? Heaven help us.

PS
Apparently an unintentional mistake was your use of "sir".
(I'm not a he, but a she.)
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[Neeshu]

I can hardly understand your words manish strange way of learning what I learned from Harry Lawrane was we remember in pictures so start associating and make sentence thats the best way I can remember words
like embezzlement , indolent=> lazy , ingenuous => childlike behaviour its easy to remember in pictures, using association I associated word lazy with my brother something like acme with roadrunners acme toolkit.

[Manish]

Hi neeshu, I agree with you that to memorize words by picture-association rule is quite easy and durable. I read the book of Harry Lawrane about Memory techniques to remember cards, names and many in past. Even I applied in my day-to-day life somewhat. But for GRE there are tons of words and in short time it is not possible to remember all those words especially those which are very weird. There should be something like word groups to memorize many words by links of synonyms and antonyms rather than one by one. Thats why MOST of the test-takers uses word-groups for words rather than to waste their time by remembering one-by-one word. I have not only this one file, but a bunch of word groups which also are categorized in classes and intensity of words and like that. I was loving to group them and memorize them by that way, and so many of the test-takers loves like that. But there are many successful ways to learn words(picture dictionary, audio files, etc) and this is the one type from it.

[Neeshu]

just learn alphabetically or try thesaurus

[Wordoholic]

Or just use Wordoholic (http://wordoholic.com)

[Eflect]

Reading many examples of the word being used will help you remember it. According to the web site improvingvocabulary.org, making up your own examples can also improve your memory of words by 670%.

[Deepthi5a0]

hello manish can u send it to me at deepthiparipati@gmail.com

[Moslemam]

guru's GRE wordlist 0.2(copyright@1998-2001 by Guru Ramnath.K)is the best! Check it out! Huh? Deepthi5a0:"manish can u send it to me"!!!!!! Manish wants to sell that! Am I wrong?

[Berlinder]

The negative aspect of buying a list of words is on hand.
It is similar to buying a Dictionary.
Oh no, never.
You must prepare the list of your own. Then you learn in two ways.
During writing = making the list, you pay attention to each word and thereby learn it.
On a second look, like revising you study the words again and again.
There the chances of learning and memorising is considerably greater ande enhanced.
You can prepare the list comfortably within 4 weeks and definitely the chances are much better for an excellent performance in the Exsam.
Good Luck.

[Gre_Savvy]

Vocab is a tricky thing, but hopefully my method will work for you.

I am a free associate, so what I mean is that when I learn a word, I try to contextualize it or connect it to something I already know. For example, OBDURATE means resistant to persuasion, and hardened in feeling so I associated it with my horrible boss from before. Or, take the word PREVARICATE which means to deceive; notice that it has the word VARY in it, so you can associate that with "varying from the truth." For something like MALEVOLENT, I thought of the evil witch character in the Disney movie Sleeping Beauty because she has a similar, if not the same name. The same applies to UMBRAGE, which means offence, and when you remember the Harry Potter character, you see how you can remember that offensive person's characteristic. Does this help?

Sometimes word roots help. For example, if you know that BEL means war, you can get BELLICOSE = warlike. This is not a hard and fast rule, but if you have the time, knowing the roots can help with memorizing actual words.

These are the techniques I used and unfortunately sometimes you will have to rely on memory alone. Seeing it used in a sentence may help you, so check unfamiliar words on dictionary.com or other dictionary websites.

Good luck studying! And all the best for the GRE!

[Dnacube]

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