How does the GRE exam attempt to gauge my vocabulary level?
Of the 30 questions on the Verbal section of the GRE exam, more than half test your vocabulary head-on: • 9 Analogy questions (you determine the relationship between words in pairs) • 7 Antonym questions (you choose which word among five choices is most contrary, or opposite, in meaning to a particular word)Analogy and Antonym questions are essentially vocabulary questions. If you know the meaning of every word in the question, you’ll probably get the question right. And the more words you know, the better your chances of narrowing down the choices to the correct one. NOTE: The 6 GRE Sentence Completion questions also gauge your vocabulary level, but not as directly as Analogies and Antonyms.
