The GRE is the most vocabulary-intensive major standardized test in existence: about half of the Verbal Reasoning questions — every Text Completion and every Sentence Equivalence item — are decided by whether you know the word, precisely. Sentence Equivalence literally asks you to pick the two words that produce the same sentence meaning, which is a synonym test with a timer on it.
Most GRE word lists hand you a thousand words in alphabetical order. This course drills them the way the exam tests them.
What the course covers
Nearly 1,200 exercises across 10 lessons:
- Three graded tiers — Foundation, Core, and Advanced Words — so you climb from words you half-know to the genuinely hard tier (perspicacious, mordant, sedulous) in order.
- Synonym Clusters in two lessons, organized by tone (positive/neutral vs. negative/critical) — the exact discrimination Sentence Equivalence rewards.
- Commonly Confused Pairs — the lookalikes the exam plants as wrong answers.
- Secondary Meanings — common words in the uncommon senses the GRE loves.
- Word Roots & Prefixes — for decoding words you never studied.
- Sentence Completion Practice and a high-frequency Mixed Review to put it all back into exam-shaped sentences.
Every card is typed recall with audio and an example sentence, scheduled by spaced repetition — words return exactly when you're about to forget them.
No sign-up needed to start. Every lesson is free.
What this deliberately does not do
This is the vocabulary layer, not a mock exam: no timed sections, no adaptive question formats, no essay scoring. Pair the course with the official practice tests for format drill — and bring to those tests a vocabulary that no longer needs looking up.
No sign-up needed to start. Every lesson is free.