GRE® Vocabulary Flashcards

2,000+ GRE vocabulary practice questions to accelerate your English language mastery.

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The fastest way to learn new English vocabulary.

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These 2,000+ smart, adaptive GRE vocabulary flashcards have been expert-curated and vetted to prepare you for the verbal reasoning & analytical writing sections of the GRE exam. With Brainscape's scientifically-optimized study algorithm, you will quickly understand and retain all of the most challenging GRE vocabulary words, as well as 300+ English "word elements".

Nine decks and 850 words later, these GRE vocab practice questions will hone your eloquence and articulation to such a razor’s edge that you’ll make Jane Austin’s compositions read like nursery rhymes! (And it's FREE to start!)

GRE vocabulary flashcards to accelerate your English language mastery

Effective communication is the portal through which we achieve great personal and professional success in life. And fundamental to good communication is a strong command of language. So, whether you are looking to swell your vocabulary with deliciously labyrinthine words or to crush the GRE vocabulary exam (or both), Brainscape’s adaptive GRE vocab practice questions are the best possible tools for the job.

These GRE vocabulary flashcards are designed in accordance with key cognitive learning principles to help you master the building blocks of English with prodigious efficiency and convenience. Instantly accessible via the Brainscape web or mobile app, you can transform any humble snatch of idle time into a profitable study session, learning scores of new words every day, while also constantly refreshing the words you learned the previous days and weeks.

You can also use Brainscape to make flashcards for the vocabulary you come across during your conversations with articulate people, or the next time you attempt a tome, like James Joyce’s Ulysses (Lord knows, you’ll need all the help you can get)!

How Brainscape’s GRE vocabulary flashcards help you learn faster

The brain is hardwired to learn and remember information in a certain way. The Brainscape™ flashcard app was born out of the question: what if we leveraged this hardwiring to help students learn more efficiently? Fueled by curiosity, our team of cognitive scientists from Columbia and Yale spent years developing a scientifically optimized learning platform to boost your learning.

Our "secret sauce" is a learning algorithm that delivers GRE vocab practice test questions to your brain in a way that optimizes its ability to retain those concepts. And it’s the spaced repetition of GRE vocabulary flashcards at precisely the right interval for YOUR brain that makes Brainscape so effective for learning and remembering new words.

Brainscape’s GRE vocabulary flashcards:

  • Consist of 9 decks of 1,700 cards (in total), which drill 850 words using two formats: definition recall and a second (reversed) word recall format.
  • 1 Final deck of 300+ word elements that will help you decipher more words beyond those herein.
  • Will raise your GRE vocabulary score with great content developed by top educators from Princeton Review & Kaplan.
  • Allow you to focus on 850 tough words tested frequently on the GRE like "simper," "cozen," "succor," "distrait," and "protean".
  • Employ the latest cognitive science techniques to help you practice your GRE vocabulary much more effectively than any vocab game.
  • Cement the new vocabulary in your brain using sample sentences, synonyms, pronunciation guidance, and reverse cards, in addition to clear definitions.
  • Build your more general language skills with hundreds of word elements (prefixes, suffixes, and roots).

Additional free resources with these GRE vocab practice questions:

So boost your GRE score while mastering some great words to make you look erudite as heck during your next soirée.

Decks in this class (10)

Advanced Vocab Words - Set 1
Learn to understand and effectively use 100 advanced vocabulary words. Improve your test scores, or simply be more articulate in your daily life. Each word is used in context in a sample sentence and includes synonyms and a pronunciation guide.
200  cards
Advanced Vocab Words - Set 2
Learn to understand and effectively use 100 advanced vocabulary words. Improve your test scores, or simply be more articulate in your daily life. Each word is used in context in a sample sentence and includes synonyms and a pronunciation guide.
200  cards
Advanced Vocab Words - Set 3
Learn to understand and effectively use 100 advanced vocabulary words. Improve your test scores, or simply be more articulate in your daily life. Each word is used in context in a sample sentence and includes synonyms and a pronunciation guide.
200  cards
Advanced Vocab Words - Set 4
Learn to understand and effectively use 100 advanced vocabulary words. Improve your test scores, or simply be more articulate in your daily life. Each word is used in context in a sample sentence and includes synonyms and a pronunciation guide.
200  cards
Advanced Vocab Words - Set 5
Learn to understand and effectively use 100 advanced vocabulary words. Improve your test scores, or simply be more articulate in your daily life. Each word is used in context in a sample sentence and includes synonyms and a pronunciation guide.
200  cards
Advanced Vocab Words - Set 6
Learn to understand and effectively use 100 advanced vocabulary words. Improve your test scores, or simply be more articulate in your daily life. Each word is used in context in a sample sentence and includes synonyms and a pronunciation guide.
200  cards
Advanced Vocab Words - Set 7
Learn to understand and effectively use 100 advanced vocabulary words. Improve your test scores, or simply be more articulate in your daily life. Each word is used in context in a sample sentence and includes synonyms and a pronunciation guide.
200  cards
Advanced Vocab Words - Set 8
Learn to understand and effectively use 100 advanced vocabulary words. Improve your test scores, or simply be more articulate in your daily life. Each word is used in context in a sample sentence and includes synonyms and a pronunciation guide.
200  cards
Advanced Vocab Words - Set 9
Learn to understand and effectively use 100 advanced vocabulary words. Improve your test scores, or simply be more articulate in your daily life. Each word is used in context in a sample sentence and includes synonyms and a pronunciation guide.
98  cards
English Word Elements
Learn 100 useful words to help you become more articulate. Half of these flashcards show you a common English vocabulary word and ask you for its definition, while the other half show you a definition and ask you which word it describes. Cards are appended with sample sentences and synonyms.
304  cards

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