5800 Exercises to Help you on the Verbal Section of the World's Most Important Tests, including the GRE, GMAT, SAT, and ACT {BooksHash}

Mnemonic Devices for Difficult Words in English
There are many different vocabulary building exercises that you can use to improve your English proficiency, whether for test prep purposes or to assimilate more quickly in a new geography, or for professional purposes. Here are some of the popular ones:

- Flash cards: These are a great way to start, and to build up a strong word power base. However, the lack of measurable achievement and gamification can make it difficult to keep score, and can reduce the motivation to keep trying at later stages. It also does not directly help to prepare for a test environment.

- Simple questions and answers about word meanings: These are like flash cards, but with an option to keep score. This is probably the most common format that you will see in other books, but the format can get tiresome after a while, because you see it everywhere. In addition, the density of information is not very high; you learn exactly one word per question.

- The format of most of the questions in this book: The gamified synonym format in this book is a great way to learn a large number of words quickly, and to be entertained while you're doing it! In each of the questions in this book, you will be given a word, and you will need to match that word with a second word that is closest in meaning to the first word from among a pool of five words.
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