Saludos (Greetings) GRE warriors! This week, we’re taking a vacaciones de estudio! (study vacation) to sunny Spain, exploring the rich tapestry of the English language and its fascinating connection to Spanish. We’ll delve into three potent words with Spanish roots and a bonus practice question to solidify your understanding. So, comencemos! (let’s start) 1. Guerilla (pronounced gə-ril-ə): Beyond the Ape First up, we encounter “guerilla,” often misused as “gorilla,” the majestic primate. However, “guerilla” refers to a soldier, typically part of an elite (select) rebellion (uprising) force. T ..read more

Today’s GRE vocabulary blog is dedicated to words that you can use to define someone’s personality. We often see certain traits in people but aren’t sure how to describe these traits or the person. If you find yourself running out of words, then don’t worry! Below is a list of words from your must-learn GRE Word List that could aid you. In today’s GRE vocabulary blog we will cover: Introspection, Introvert, Extrovert, Braggart, Malevolent, Xenophile, and Xenophobia. i. Introspection Part of Speech – Noun Definition – Examining one’s own thoughts and feelings Synonyms – Self-analysis, soul-sea ..read more

Hello folks, welcome to the 21st GRE Word List Blog. This series of blogs aims to provide GRE Vocabulary practice in the form of a comprehensive GRE Word List to bolster your GRE Preparation. Last time, I wrote about some electrifying words that might find their way into the sentence equivalence and test completion sections of the GRE test, along with interesting stories about Benjamin Franklin (the MVP of the all-rounders), Pokemon, and more! You can read that here in GRE Word List Blog #20! This GRE vocabulary blog is about words that derive their names from people, real and fictional – ep ..read more

Hello folks, welcome to the 20th GRE Words List Blog. This series of blogs aims to provide GRE Vocabulary practice in the form of a comprehensive GRE Words List to bolster your GRE Preparation. For our 10th blog, we put up 10 marquee GRE words for your reading pleasure. However, this blog will not contain 20 GRE words; just the standard 5. If you’d like to check the 10th GRE Verbal Preparation blog out, click here. Quite like the proverbial bolt from the blue, the idea for this blog’s theme came together from nowhere. You could say, inspiration (thunder)struck me! The GRE words for this blog ..read more

Hello folks, welcome to the 19th GRE Word List Blog. This series of blogs aims to provide GRE Vocabulary practice in the form of a comprehensive GRE Word List to bolster your GRE Preparation. If you haven’t read our previous blogs, check them out here – GRE Word List Blogs. As we’re getting ever closer to 20 Blogs, we want to hear from you, our readers on what themes and what kind of GRE words you’d like to see in future blogs. Do leave your suggestions in the comments! The theme of this GRE Word List blog is something I’ve been wanting to write about, for a while now. If you’re like m ..read more

Weathering the Storm Hello folks, welcome to the 18th GRE Preparation Word List Blog. This series of blogs aims to provide GRE aspirants with a comprehensive set of GRE Word Lists to bolster their GRE Verbal Preparation. If you haven’t read our previous blogs, check them out here – GRE Preparation Word List Blogs Home Page The last week has been a tough time, weather-wise, for a lot of people, in Chennai. Hope everyone’s doing better now. And as the saying ‘Life imitates art, and art imitates life’ goes, it sparked the idea for the theme for this blog. This blog looks at GRE Preparation ..read more

The Head Hello folks, welcome to the 17th GRE Word List Blog. This series of blogs aims to provide GRE aspirants with a comprehensive set of GRE Word Lists to bolster their GRE Verbal Preparation. If you haven’t read our previous blogs, check them out here – GRE Word List Blogs Home Page ‘Recalcitrant is a word I’ve been wanting to blog about for a while. Finally, I delved into its word origins and discovered that it originates from ‘heels/kicking out’ and being difficult, in general. So, that led me to scour for words that also had their origins in human body parts. And that’s how I got ..read more

Hello folks, welcome to the 16th GRE Prep Word List Blog. This series of blogs aims to provide GRE aspirants with a comprehensive set of GRE Word Lists to bolster their GRE Verbal Preparation. If you haven’t read our previous blogs, check them out here – GRE Prep Blog Home Page In last week’s blog, when talking about crème de la crème, I had included a reference to Wu-Tang Clan’s ‘Cash Rules Everything Around Me.’ That sparked the thought of this blog focusing on words related to money. The words in this blog are parsimonious, profligate, fiscal, patronize, and bequeath. Before we start off w ..read more

Hello folks, welcome to the 15th GRE Word List Blog. This series of blogs aims to provide GRE aspirants Verbal resources to bolster their GRE Preparation online. In this blog, we will explore a few English words adapted from French i.e. Loanwords, in continuation to our last blog, where we looked at Scandinavian Loanwords. If you haven’t read that yet, check it out! You can find the other GRE Online Preparation Word List Blogs here. The Scandinavian loanwords blog from last week, combined with the excitement surrounding the release of the new James Bond movie made me think about other langu ..read more

The Aurora Borealis Hello folks, welcome to the 14th GRE Word List Blog. This series of blogs deals with Essential Words for the GRE and helps GRE aspirants bolster their GRE Verbal Preparation, and ace the GRE Verbal section. In this blog, we will explore a few English words adapted from other languages – i.e. Loanwords. If you haven’t already, check out our other GRE Word List blogs. Scandinavia is a term that typically refers to the countries of Sweden, Denmark, and Norway. So, this week’s words are loanwords from their respective languages to English. This week’s loanwords are Maelstrom ..read more