These are the easiest questions in GRE verbal sections. Here you are asked to pick up the most nearest word opposite in meaning to the given one.

Most of these questions depends highly on your vocabulary power. So if you know meaning of all words in the question you can answer it right away.. But the problems comes when you face a question with words you don't know.

READ ALL ANSWERS BEFORE JUMPING TO A CONCLUSION

Take any example of below question

RELUCTANT:

• relaxed
• eager
• tiresome
• brave
• unwilling

GRE verbal isn't that easy that you will get marks just by picking up an antonym.
the answer for above question is eager...

Relucatant means unwillingly doing or joining without interest
At first glance unwilling might pop into your mind but it is not the nearest opposite of the given words.

The right answer is eager which means doing something with interest where as reluctant means doing or participate without interest.

All gre questions will be like this.

There are many tricks up under their sleeves.

Some times they include synonyms in the answers. You have to remember that you are looking for ANTONYMS NOT SYNONYMS.

Some times there are questions that target the secondary meaning and uncommon use of the word.


AFFECTED:

• Disturbed
• Maladroit
• Solid
• Unadulterated
• Genuine

AFFECTED:- which means

• Influenced in a harmful way; impaired, harmed, or attacked, as by climate or disease.
• acted upon; influenced.

But when you see unadulterated just comes in your mind but it lacks some thing. Also none of the answers seems to be right antonym. Unadulterated means pure or without any impurities. But the right answer for above question is GENUINE. Affected gives meaning of an insincere or fake expression. So Genuine (original ) is the right answer here. These types of question are difficult to answer even if you know the meaning of all words in the question.

There are other ways to attack or tackle the GRE Antonym questions when you don't know the meaning.

Stripping off any prefixes or suffixes like "-ing," "un-," "pre-," "-in", "-able" and so forth you arrive at the root meaning of the word. Take example of the word like predisposition.


remove the pre suffix and you will end up with disposition.

pre- gives the meaning of before and the suffix -tion suggests that we are dealing with a noun. So just look of nouns in the answers so that you can eliminate other forms like verbs and adjectives.

disposition means dispose some thing.. or making your position before or previous inclination etc...

Now search for a noun that means not inclined in the answers.

One of the most effective way to know meaning of unknown words is etymology. Which means divining words into two or breaking into two

Ex: ominpotent..

omni + potent

omni is like in the word omniscient --- which means every where..

potent means --> potency or strength...

Together the word means strong everywhere or strong among all.

Word that starts with "De," "Dis," or "Anti" will almost certainly be negative
so look for words that seem to have positive meaning..

There are also word that have rythm going up like Elevate, Ascendancy, Lofty and these will be certainly positive and others have tone going down like Decline, Subjugate, Suborn, etc. and these words have negative meaning.

Also if you don't recognize the meaning of the word then put the word in context.
Try to think of a sentence or context which you have heard the word in and you can guess the meaning from that.

But before looking for an opposite word, think of an opposite meaning for the capitalized word. This can be useful and you can filter the choices quickly.

if you want more knowledge on etymology use Word Power Made Easy by Norman Lewis.

Anyway all the best for your exam.

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How to tackle verbal antonyms
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Gre Vocabulary is tough. The verbal section is very hard. You need to have good grip on english meanings. Here is a good article on how to improve your vocabulary .You have to atleast master all the important meanings given in Barrons Gre Guide books. There are thousands of words in english. No one asks you to learn all of them. Most frequently appearing GRE words are listed in Barron's GRE book. I highly recommend all to use this. I just costs you few dollars. But it is very useful.
There is another way to improve you vocabulary. Use flash cards. This is realistic option to memorize words. Start reading the word lists in barrons. Write down the word which you often forget or find difficult to on flash cards with meanings on the back side. This is very very userful. This way you can remember all the difficult words you are forgetting. Revise these flash cards when ever you find time. But practice is also very important. I have listed some of online gre vocabulary practice resources in my blog post. GRE PREP Materials. Some experts say use mnemonics. Which mean they ask you to remember a picture for each word (i too think this is the easiest way to remember things). But this is only short time. If you want you vocabulary to come in handy during long time , read more and more challenging materials. This is the only way you can improve yourself and remember vocab for Long time. I suggest you read Norma Levis's Books "Word Power Made Easy". This is the best book for getting solid foundation in vocabulary. It is an entertaining book. I highly recommend this before jumping into Barrons.

You can find a large number of free gre testing tools or gre test on web. These websites helps you a lot in gre preparation. All of these gre courses listed here are free.Some of them even offer gre classes. Some of these gre test prep tools are made of javascript and some of them are made in flash. You can prepare for gre online without paying much .
Here are the gre practice resources online.


Test Preview
This website has are large no of assesment modules. It contains 20 questions on each of Analogies,Algebra, Averages and Rounding, Arithmetic, Commas, Estimation and Sequences, exponents, Fractions and Square Roots, Geometry,  Grammar, Graphs, Math, Comparison Math Questions, Measurement, Nouns, Percents and Ratios, Basic Reading Comprehension, Reading for the Main Idea, Advanced Reading Comprehension, Reading Vocabulary, Sentence Correction, Sentence Flow, Usage Tests, Verbs, Writing Section 1 and Writing Section 2

Gre Guide
This site has four practice test on each of following topics

• Reading Comprehension
  
• Sentence Completion
  
• Analogies
  
• Math Problem Solving
  
• GRE Math Comparison

Syvium Gre
This site has 64 gre tests on specific parts. It covers all basics & has very handful tips on each of the three sections of GRE.

GRE Verbal Practice @ Graduateshotline
This is a never ending practice. Practice till you die!! You have to select closest synonym here. This is free!!.

Number2.com
This is also a good site with tips on how to attack a specific section of gre. It does have some practice questions but limited. But the tutorials provided  here are very good.

Free Full Length Practice Test at Princeton Review
This is a single full length practice test at princeton review site.

Another Free test at Micro EDU
I found only verbal section here. You might find more...

English Test .com
This site has really good javascript. YOu can improve your english vocabulary very well here.

My GRE Tutor
This site has lots of information and very good practice tests. Down side you have to login or register though it is free

The computer based gre contains three sections. Analytical writing, Quantitative reasoning, Verbal Reasoning. The unscored & Research sections can be skipped. The most frustrating is that you have to write before you can give the Verbal exam which you will be very anxious ( i bet).

Section	Number of Questions	Time
Analytical Writing	1 Issue Task*	45 minutes
Analytical Writing	1 Argument Task*	30 minutes
Verbal	30	30 minutes
Quantitative	28	45 minutes
Unscored**	Varies	Varies
Research***	Varies	Varies

Its better to check the official GRE page at ETS.
Here are the cost accoring to that page on 23-august-08. The fees are subjected to change any time. So be careful.Also you can give the exam only once in a month and 5 fives in a calendar year. Also all INDIANS must need an passport for attending the exam. So don't register for GRE unless you have a passport. I faced huge problem with this. I actually received my passport  on the day before the exam.

$140	General Test—U.S., U.S. Territories, and Puerto Rico
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$ 25	Late Registration Fee
$ 50	Standby Testing (paper-based test only)
$ 50	Rescheduling Fee
$ 50	Changing Your Test Center
$ 12	Scores by phone
$ 20	Additional score report (ASR) requests–per recipient
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GRE – Graduate Record Exam. This is a standard exam conducted by ETS a non-profit organization. This exam is used by almost all Universities in USA and Europe as a standard of student’s analytical and language skills. You have to take GRE as all universities recommend it and use it as a scale or qualification for admission and GSA (Graduate Student Assistantships) are awarded based on these. GRE consists of three sections, Verbal, Quantitative and Analytical Writing. To complete analytical writing sections successfully you need to have good typing speed since you will be typing a lot during this section.
If you have poor typing speed, I suggest you work on this as this will save you a lot of time during exam. The other sections verbal and quant require a good amount of work. It is not easy to get 800/800 in verbal. Verbal section of GRE is generally very tough compare to SAT. Quantitative section is easy compared to SAT. GRE is a computer adaptive test. If you get the question wrong then next question will be an easy one and if your answer is right then the next question will be harder. So if you are getting a lot of harder question then it means that you are doing well in you exam. If you are getting easy questions then you are doing badly. The harder the question is the more marks you get for that one and vice-versa. Visit ETS’s website for more and updated information on GRE.

It depends on your English skills. I would recommend an Indian at least 3 months of study (3-4 hours daily) before attempting the exam. Generally we have poor vocabulary. So it takes lot of time before you before you attain a decent vocabulary. But remember GRE is not the only criteria where the universities select you. It is just considered as a qualifying exam. If you have excellent academic record, GRE wouldn’t matter much. If you have a low academic profile, I suggest you work hard on scores of GRE & TOEFL. Since you cannot change your academic profile, you need to get high scores. Generally applications for fall semester start at October to November range. So it is better to give all the tests by this time. It is generally recommended to give all tests by September End. Because if you get any low score, you can rewrite the exam and there is enough time for the scores to come. So start preparing for GRE in JULY. Take as many practice tests as you can. Don’t ignore quant part of GRE. The maths questions are easy but without practice you will be losing questions which are under your nose. The quant questions of GRE are of O level. They are actually very simple, but made tough by wording. Practice makes man perfect!! Don’t attempt the exam unprepared. You will lose money and time by that way. So prepare well. All the best.