GRE Verbal Reasoning - Vocabulary Skills: Tutoring Solution - Videos & Lessons

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The Verbal Reasoning - Vocabulary Skills chapter of this GRE Prep Tutoring Solution is a flexible and affordable path to reviewing vocabulary skills. These simple and fun video lessons are each about five minutes long, and they teach all of the information involving vocabulary skills required for the GRE.

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Identify the vocabulary skills concepts that you're stuck on.
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This chapter of our GRE prep tutoring solution will benefit any student who is trying to prepare for the GRE and earn acceptable scores. This resource can help students including those who:

Struggle with understanding common GRE vocabulary and related vocabulary skills topics
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Learn at Your Pace: You can pause and rewatch lessons as often as you'd like, until you master the material.

Learning objectives:

Learn to use context to figure out the meaning of a word.
Find out how to use context clues and word structure to aid in understanding what you're reading.
Explore how your prior knowledge can assist you as a reader.

3 Lessons in Chapter 2: GRE Verbal Reasoning - Vocabulary Skills: Tutoring Solution

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1. How to Use Context to Determine the Meaning of Words

With diligence and intrepid ingenuity, you can use context to ascertain the purport of a word. In other words, in this lesson, we'll find out how to use context to figure out what words mean.

2. Constructing Meaning with Context Clues, Prior Knowledge & Word Structure

In this lesson, you will learn how readers use prior knowledge, context clues and word structure to aid their understanding of what they read. Explore these strategies through examples from literature and everyday life.

3. Abstract Words: Definition & Examples

Abstract words communicate important thoughts in our speech and writing, but they can be tricky because they have many meanings. This lesson explains the difference between abstract and concrete words and relates how using abstract words carefully allows you to communicate more clearly.

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