GRE VERBAL

GRE Verbal - Antonyms

GRE Antonyms measure your:

• vocabulary
• ability to reason from a given concept to its opposite

You are presented with a single word followed by five answer choices containing words or short phrases. You have to select an answer choice that's most nearly opposite in meaning to the original word. Since the questions often require you to distinguish finer shades of meaning, go through all the possible answer choices before making your selection.

GRE Verbal - Antonyms Strategies :

• Try to define the word precisely
• Look for shades of meaning of the given word
• Make a sentence with it
• Analyse the prefix or suffix to help establish a word's meaning
• Eliminate irrelevant answer choices

GRE Verbal - Antonyms Sample question :

PERSEVERE

A. Take Away
B. Put into
C. Send out
D. Give up
E. Bring forward

Answer: D

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GRE Verbal - GRE Analogies

Analogies measure your ability to recognize:

• relationships among words and concepts they represent
• parallel relationships

Here you are presented with a related pair of words followed by five answer choices containing lettered pairs of words or phrases. Select the lettered pair that best expresses a relationship similar to that expressed in the original pair.

GRE Verbal - Analogies Strategies :

• Try to establish a strong relationship between the given pair of words
• Consider relationships of kind, size, spatial contiguity, or degree.
• If more than one of the answer choices seems correct, try to state the relationship more precisely.
• Check for second meanings of the given words

GRE Verbal - Analogies Sample question :

EVAPORATE:VAPOUR

A. petrify:stone
B. centrifuge:liquid
C. saturate:fluid
D. corrode:acid
E. incinerate:fire

Answer: A

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GRE Verbal - GRE Reading comprehension

Reading comprehension is the toughest one in GRE Verbal. Many students get a poor GRE Score in GRE Verbal section because of the toughness of the reading comprehension questions. GRE Reading comprehension measures your ability:

• to read with understanding, insight, and discrimination
• to analyze a written passage from several perspectives

Passages are taken from the humanities, social sciences, biological sciences and physical sciences. The passages are of varied lengths, but generally of 75 to 150 lines. The number of questions pertaining to a particular passage could range from 3 to 5.

GRE Verbal - Reading comprehension Strategies :

• Go through the passage once to get the genearal idea of the passage
• Don't try to memorize details but instead pay attention to the topic and the focus of the passage as you read.
• For questions asking you to give the passage a title, look at the first and last lines of the passage for clues.

GRE Verbal - Reading Comprehension Sample question :

Reading comprehension Passage:
In his 1976 study of slavery in the US, Herbert Gutman, like Fogel, Engerman, And Genovese, has rightly stressed the slaves' achievements. But unlike these historians......(rest of the passage) ........In sum, Gutman's study is significant because it offers a closely reasoned and original explanation of some of the slaves' achievements, one that correctly emphasizes the resources that slaves themselves possessed.

Which of the following is the most appropriate title for the passage, based on its content?

A. The influence of Herbert Gutman on Historians of Slavery in the US
B. Gutman's explanation of how slaves could maintain a cultural Heritage and develop a communal consciousness
C. Slavery in the US: New Controversy about an old subject
D. The Black heritage of Folklore, Music, and Religious Expression: It's growing influence
E. The Black family and extended kinship structure: How they were important for the freed slave

Answer: B