5 words to test your GRE verbal level

It's the season when the number of GRE exam students is soaring every year, of course, everyone knows that the first step in preparing for the GRE exam is to memorize good words, so everyone buys a word book, downloads a good word app and starts to liver up.

Well, in fact, there is no problem with everyone here, but to warn everyone in advance, memorizing words must be combined with the beginning of the question, especially the easy part of the fill-in-the-blank question, only brushing the word book will be extremely inefficient.

Then some students will ask: Teacher, how can you prove that your words are memorized well enough? When will you start brushing up on the harder fill-in-the-blank and reading questions?

Of course, there is no special standard answer to this question, but if you don't know or understand the following words, it must mean that your GRE verbal level has not yet reached 150.

check

Some students will be surprised: what xxx xxxx? I learned this word in elementary school! Yes, you did learn it in elementary school, but did you know that the word "block" is used in the GRE exam to examine the meaning of "block"? If you don't know, then sorry, please continue your word performance.

belie

There may be a few students who know that this word means "disguised", but if you only know this meaning, it is equivalent to not knowing the word, because in the exam, the most commonly used test method of this word is "proof... is wrong", it is a commonly used anti-logical word.

mixed

Some students will be surprised: what xxx xxxx again? Doesn't that mean "mixed"? Well... If you don't know that the word has a "contradictory" meaning, then do you dare to go to the exam room?

There is a similar word called combining, which some people will recognize as "competitive", that is, confused with cooperative, competing actually means "contradictory", andcompetive is a completely different meaning.

gradual

At this point, some students can't believe their eyes anymore, and they don't want to be surprised anymore. Teacher, you can tell it directly, I just don't know this "gradual".

Haha, it is true that this word test does not test "gradual", but not because of the polysemy of the word, but the understanding of "gradual", in fact, "gradual" emphasizes "difficult to perceive", so in the equivalence question, the equivalent word of the word must be a word that means "difficult to perceive".

promise

I promise Some people don't know that this word has another meaning, yes, it means "bright prospects", for example, it has an adjective called promising, and some students may remember this word.

Well, I'm just using some of the seemingly simple words that are often tested in the GRE exam to tell you that memorizing words is a long way to go, after all, there are still some particularly long and difficult words that have not yet been explained.

Finally, I would like to leave you with two thought questions.

Example 1

The sailors realized too late that winds had shifted the ice in such a way as to obstruct the ship’s path; this process had been so _____ that it was completed by the time they discovered the effect.

A. gradual

B. negligible

C. unpredictable

D. time-consuming

E. inconsequential

F. imperceptible

Example 2

Joshua Gisemba Bagaka found that the pedagogical results of group projects and other engaged learning activities in Kenyan mathematics classroom were ______; such activities, then, may not be the best way of improving mathematics education.（37-7）

A. overstated

B. counterintuitive

C. mixed

D. discouraging

E. inconsistent

F. inexplicable