Learn 300 GRE words in 4 Weeks.
This is the home page of the daily Vocab Program.
I have designed this program to help you learn GRE words in an intelligent manner instead of through dumb, rote memorization of dry word lists. Every day, you will encounter five to eight new words in their natural context and come to understand the ideas and histories behind them. Each week, I will also share a Sunday Read, which will be a story with numerous GRE words.
To know how I chose the words covered in the Vocab Program, click here.
As you embark on the Vocab Program, my asks from you are only two:
- A time-commitment of:
- 10 minutes daily from Monday to Saturday, and
- 60 minutes on Sunday
- Daily revision of previously learnt words. Start your day’s vocab slot with a quick review of material from:
- the day before, and
- any one earlier day.
For example, on Day 6, before beginning the day’s article, revise words learnt on Day 5 and on one previous day of your choosing (from Days 1 to 4).
The day-wise content is as follows.
Week 1
Daily Reads
| Day | Words covered that day |
|---|---|
| 1 | apprehensive |
| ambiguity | |
| unequivocal, equivocal | |
| discrepancy | |
| 2 | dichotomy |
| culpable | |
| warrant | |
| accrue | |
| viable | |
| 3 | qualified |
| anomaly | |
| irony | |
| autonomy | |
| ambivalence | |
| 4 | engender |
| cessation, incessant | |
| conceivable | |
| alleviate | |
| cerebral | |
| 5 | overt |
| mediate | |
| rescind | |
| skepticism | |
| volitional | |
| 6 | infallible, fallible |
| discretion | |
| advent | |
| cadaver | |
| preclude | |
| 7 | futile and futility |
| prognosis, prognosticate, prognostication | |
| concomitant | |
| prophecy, prophesy | |
| agnostic |
Sunday Read 1
The Cabulliwalah, by Rabindranath Tagore. You’ll learn up to 43 words:
chatter, vexed, prattle, embark, dart, grave, contrive, peddler, precarious, startled, demur, judicious, quaint, maiden, a trifle, euphemism, sturdy, discomfit, conjure, vivid, arid, intervene, implore, timid, solemn, conspiracy, subside, uproar, inquisitive, amuse, fettered, assault, sordid, pervade, canopy, vigor, wistful, accord, adorn, bashful, apparition, curtail, despondent
Total words covered in Week 1 = 80
(37 through Daily Reads + 43 through Sunday Read)
Week 2
Daily Reads
| Day | Words covered that day |
|---|---|
| 8 | secular |
| veneration | |
| reverence, irreverence | |
| proscribe, proscription | |
| connotation, | |
| idolatry | |
| 9 | subjective, objective |
| perception (+ perceive, misperception, percipient, perceptive) | |
| imperceptible | |
| digress, digression | |
| contentious | |
| 10 | analogy, analogous |
| explicit, explication | |
| implicit, imply, implication | |
| metaphor | |
| vivid | |
| 11 | tangible, intangible |
| figurative | |
| evoke, evocative | |
| humdrum | |
| monotonous, monotony | |
| 12 | obscure, obscurity |
| propitiate, propitiation, propitious | |
| promulgate, promulgation | |
| edict, | |
| decree | |
| 13 | iconoclasm, iconoclast |
| heresy, heretic | |
| extirpate, extirpation | |
| persecution | |
| prototype | |
| 14 | dogma, dogmatic |
| conformity, nonconformity | |
| allude, allusion | |
| allegory |
Sunday Read 2
The Storyteller, by Saki. You’ll learn up to 18 words:
Tenacious, fatuous, inevitable, persevere, patent (adj), resolute and irresolute, listless, petulant, deplorable, insipid, bristle (v), retort, novelty and novel (adj), nonchalant, prowl, dissent, undermine, assail
Total words covered in Week 2 = 56
(38 through Daily Reads + 18 through Sunday Read)
Week 3
Daily Reads
| Day | Words covered that day |
|---|---|
| 15 | vilify, vilification |
| audacity, audacious | |
| affront, effrontery | |
| maverick | |
| indifferent, indifference | |
| 16 | obloquy |
| calumny, calumniation, calumnious, calumniate | |
| detraction | |
| denunciation, denounce | |
| partisan | |
| 17 | transgress, transgression |
| deter, deterrence, deterrent | |
| commensurate | |
| flout | |
| tacit | |
| condone, condonation | |
| 18 | maxim |
| reprimand | |
| chasten, chastise | |
| errant | |
| nullify | |
| repudiate | |
| appease | |
| 19 | inadvertent |
| presume, presumption | |
| precedent, unprecedented | |
| comply, compliance | |
| elude, elusive | |
| impunity | |
| 20 | disseminate |
| resolution, resolve, irresolution | |
| manifest, manifestation | |
| arbitrary | |
| whim | |
| caprice, capricious | |
| 21 | penchant |
| banish | |
| commend | |
| disparage, parity and disparity | |
| reproach, irreproachable |
Sunday Read 3
From a God’s Journal, by Japinder Kaur (that’s me). You’ll learn up to 23 words:
grovel, dereliction, derelict, discordant, discord, apprise, omniscience, omnipotence, prosaic, placid, pious, piety/piousness, impious, impiety, deleterious, proliferate, negate, impotent, prevail, umbrage, docile, machination, apathetic, apathy, conciliatory, conciliate, adversity, adverse, prospect, equivocation, ignominy.
Total words covered in Week 3 = 66
(43 through Daily Reads + 23 through Sunday Read)
Week 4
Daily Reads
| Day | Words covered that day |
|---|---|
| 22 | countenance |
| expedient and expediency | |
| mitigate and unmitigated | |
| entreaty and entreat | |
| cornucopia, and copious | |
| 23 | extemporary, extemporaneous, extempore and extemporize |
| decree | |
| exorbitant | |
| antithesis and antithetical | |
| mutable, immutable and mutation | |
| incoherent, coherent, cohesion, and adhere and adhesion | |
| 24 | discretion, discreet, indiscreet and indiscretion |
| incumbent | |
| perspicuous and perspicuity | |
| intelligible and unintelligible | |
| articulate and inarticulate | |
| recondite | |
| 25 | intimation and intimate |
| grievous | |
| respite | |
| universal | |
| candor and candid | |
| insidious | |
| 26 | obviate |
| prospective, retrospective | |
| subsume | |
| circumvent | |
| augment | |
| 27 | seminal |
| perpetual and perpetuate | |
| propensity | |
| prudence and imprudence | |
| forfeit | |
| derision, deride and derisive | |
| diminution, diminish and diminutive | |
| 28 | erratic |
| mercurial | |
| vacillation | |
| protean | |
| egalitarian | |
| alien, alienate and inalienable/unalienable | |
| inherent | |
| exorable and inexorable | |
| dispassionate |
Sunday Read 4
3 Short Stories, by Japinder Kaur. You’ll learn up to 49 words:
chide, inebriated, rankle, oracle, oracular, flustered, sinister, heinous, devour, voracious, gloat, vanquish, dither, impudence, lament, forsaken, forsake, wizened, gouge, unanimous, forage, equanimity, animosity, astuteness, magnanimous, qualms, fledge, fledgling, unfledged, insinuation, infidelity, fidelity, castigate, colossal, gasp, egotist, egotistical, encomium, encomiastic, grating, grate, paragon, spite, bemoan, factitious, affect, wily, wile, fawn, beguile, guile, solicitude, solicitous, artifice, fiat, feckless, tirade, impute, disaffect, rancor.
Total words covered in Week 4 = 98
(49 through Daily Reads + 49 through Sunday Read)
How is your experience with the Daily Vocab Program? To share your comments and feedback, please write me a message on LinkedIn or a mail at jk@grecoachjk.com.