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Learn GRE Words with Mnemonics and Cartoons!
Below, you'll find a list of about 44 previous GRE words of the day, along with simple definitions, clever mnemonics, and example sentences. It's a great way to memorize vocabulary, since it gives your brain a "hook" to associate the definition of a word with.
If you like this learning style, make sure to check out my GRE vocab cartoons app, which illustrates 1359 words and word roots with funny cartoons like this:
Don't feel like shelling out 3 bucks for my app? I also posted all of these GRE vocab cartoons on Quizlet - for free The main drawback of Quizlet is that it lacks the app's spaced repetition algorithm, but otherwise, the flashcards are the same. Quizlet also, not surprisingly, has a quiz feature that you might enjoy.
GRE Vocabulary Quiz
BTW, I post vocabulary cartoons on my Instagram (@GRE_vocab_cartoons) along with fun vocab quizzes each week! Test your vocab skills and reinforce the meaning of the words with my vocab cartoons. This is a fun, low-key way to learn GRE words if you're just starting to study for the GRE. If you follow me, feel free to slide into my DMs and say hi. Below is a screen from one of my Instagram story GRE vocabulary quizzes.
GRE Vocabulary Videos
I've also made a bunch of GRE vocabulary videos in the form of YouTube shorts - each short is about 8 seconds long. The link is to my YouTube short playlist. It's another entertaining way to learn new GRE vocabulary words. These are all hand-drawn!
(Above: My YouTube vocabulary short for the word "abject".)
I also made a video of me narrating a bunch of my favorite vocabulary flashcards. Just click on psycho Tom Cruise there to check it out. I promise some of these will make you laugh!
(Above: Vince narrates 93 GRE vocab cartoons.)
GRE Word Of The Day: Scrupulous
scrupulous (adjective): having integrity; being exact.
Think: scrape the poop
If you were scrupulous, you would have scraped the poop from your dog off my lawn without my asking.
Synonyms: principled, conscientious, conscionable
GRE Word Of The Day: Recapitulate
recapitulate (verb): to summarize.
Think: recap
The recap on the nightly news recapitulated the major events of the day.
Synonyms: encapsulate, epitomize, synopsize
GRE Word of the Day: Querulous
querulous (queer-yuh-lus) (adjective): whiny.
Think: quarrel with us.
We’d hang out with you more, but you’re so querulous that you always want to quarrel with us!
GRE Word of the Day: Partisan
partisan (adjective): having allegiance to a particular side or cause, usually without question.
Think: party’s son.
The chairman of the Democratic party’s son was unsurprisingly partisan in his political views.
GRE Word of the Day: Nascent
nascent (adjective): recently formed or developed.
Think: new car scent.
I jumped into the nascent BMW that had just come off the assembly line and smelled the bestnew car scent I’d ever smelled.
Synonyms: incipient, budding
GRE Word of the Day: Minatory
minatory (adjective): threatening.
Think: Minotaur.
In Greek mythology, the Minotaur – a creature with the head of a bull and the body of a man – was minatory because it ate people.
All the coughs from the tuberculosis ward formed a sickening cacophony.
GRE Vocabulary Mnemonic of the Day: Badger
badger (BADGE-er) (verb): to annoy or pester
Think: bad jerk
Good jerks can get laughs, but a bad jerk will just badger you with his attempts at humor.
synonyms: harry, heckle, plague
GRE Vocabulary Mnemonic of the Day: Aberration
aberration (ab-ur-A-shun) (noun): something unusual or unexpected
Think: a bare Asian
A bare Asian would be an aberration; Asians usually wear clothes.
synonyms: anomaly, oddity
GRE Vocabulary Mnemonic of the Day: Abate
abate (uh-BATE) (verb): to lessen or reduce.
Think: rebate
The mail-in rebate on my new mobile phone will abate the high cost.
synonyms: ebb, subside, wane
GRE Vocabulary Mnemonic of the Day: Abashed
abashed (uh-BASHED) (adjective): embarrassed.
Think: Bashful
Bashful the dwarf was so abashed when Snow White kissed him that he blushed.
synonyms: discomfited, disconcerted, fazed
GRE Vocabulary Mnemonic of the Day: Abase
abase (uh-BASE) (verb): to degrade.
Think: a base
When making out with someone, if you give up a base too quickly then you just abase yourself.
synonyms: debase, lessen, vitiate
GRE Vocabulary Mnemonic of the Day: Clangorous
clangorous (CLANG-or-us) (adjective): noisy.
Think: clang
I love my son, but his third-grade orchestra is so clangorous that it sounds like they’re all just clanging on their instruments instead of playing the music.
