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11 Mar 2010, 22:08
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For what it's worth, a word a day may help build GMAT vocab....
Recently I've found through a friend a few websites that offer to send subscribers one word to their email box daily. As I'm stuck at LAX for an extended period, thought I may as well check them out. Full Disclosure: this is completely my own opinion / I'm getting no compensation or anything for this.
For background, thought this would an effortless, low-intensity way for people who need to build up their vocabulary but are otherwise busy with work and life. If you have more than just a few months, then this might be worth it as a low-stress way to learn a lot of new words that may help for GMAT prep. Disclaimer: these websites are all dedicated to people who love vocabulary ("word nerds"), and not necessarily dedicated for GMAT per se. But I figure why not -- one can probably judge for themselves if a word is too easy or too esoteric.
The first one I'm looking at is Merriam-Webster >>
- Main Page = https://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/mwwod.pl
- Archive = https://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/wodcalendar.pl
- Sign Up = https://www.merriam-webster.com/word/subscribe.htm
All in all, the words seem to be a good mix of easy / medium / hard. Several of them (like today's word - "will-o'-the-wisp") are interesting to know about but probably not GMAT material. One interesting thing is that they even dedicate a daily podcast to their word of the day, but it's basically just the explanation you'll find in the website or email -- helpful if you're an auditory learner, otherwise adds little value. The "Did you know?" section is more or less a history of the word -- interesting reading and perhaps a good tool for remembering a word, but not as useful as the explanation and example sentence.
Posts 2 (Dictionary.com) and 3 (Wordsmith) coming up....
Recently I've found through a friend a few websites that offer to send subscribers one word to their email box daily. As I'm stuck at LAX for an extended period, thought I may as well check them out. Full Disclosure: this is completely my own opinion / I'm getting no compensation or anything for this.
For background, thought this would an effortless, low-intensity way for people who need to build up their vocabulary but are otherwise busy with work and life. If you have more than just a few months, then this might be worth it as a low-stress way to learn a lot of new words that may help for GMAT prep. Disclaimer: these websites are all dedicated to people who love vocabulary ("word nerds"), and not necessarily dedicated for GMAT per se. But I figure why not -- one can probably judge for themselves if a word is too easy or too esoteric.
The first one I'm looking at is Merriam-Webster >>
- Main Page = https://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/mwwod.pl
- Archive = https://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/wodcalendar.pl
- Sign Up = https://www.merriam-webster.com/word/subscribe.htm
All in all, the words seem to be a good mix of easy / medium / hard. Several of them (like today's word - "will-o'-the-wisp") are interesting to know about but probably not GMAT material. One interesting thing is that they even dedicate a daily podcast to their word of the day, but it's basically just the explanation you'll find in the website or email -- helpful if you're an auditory learner, otherwise adds little value. The "Did you know?" section is more or less a history of the word -- interesting reading and perhaps a good tool for remembering a word, but not as useful as the explanation and example sentence.
Posts 2 (Dictionary.com) and 3 (Wordsmith) coming up....
11 Mar 2010, 22:28
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Next is Dictionary.com >>
- Main Page = https://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/
- Archive = https://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/archive/
- Sign Up = https://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/list/
Like Merriam Webster, but quite a lot more varied and interesting. These guys are for serious word nerds. They have links to synonyms and related searches as well as many example sentences as well as a lot more explanation for contextualisation. You really can get quite a lot vocab-wise from this site in general. Some other neat features --
- They have grammar help too >> https://dictionary.reference.com/writing/ (all links; English Zone is the best of them)
- Word games >> https://dictionary.reference.com/fun/ (if you need a breather)
- A Podcast that's more than just rehash >> https://dictionary.reference.com/features/podcasts.html (but not GMAT-focused per se)
- Forums! We all know how useful Gmat Club is; 'nuff said if you need help with vocab >> https://forums.delphiforums.com/dictionary/start/
Given the above, I suspect this one will be my preferred source. One more post to go....
- Main Page = https://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/
- Archive = https://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/archive/
- Sign Up = https://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/list/
Like Merriam Webster, but quite a lot more varied and interesting. These guys are for serious word nerds. They have links to synonyms and related searches as well as many example sentences as well as a lot more explanation for contextualisation. You really can get quite a lot vocab-wise from this site in general. Some other neat features --
- They have grammar help too >> https://dictionary.reference.com/writing/ (all links; English Zone is the best of them)
- Word games >> https://dictionary.reference.com/fun/ (if you need a breather)
- A Podcast that's more than just rehash >> https://dictionary.reference.com/features/podcasts.html (but not GMAT-focused per se)
- Forums! We all know how useful Gmat Club is; 'nuff said if you need help with vocab >> https://forums.delphiforums.com/dictionary/start/
Given the above, I suspect this one will be my preferred source. One more post to go....
11 Mar 2010, 22:30
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Thank you - I think this will definitely be helpful to some international folks.
I do have to crash the party a bit - GMAC ran a research study on the correlation between studying vocabulary words (fancy ones such as for GRE) and GMAT results and did not find any correlation between studying vocabulary and GMAT performance - that is for Native speakers.
However, if you are not a native speaker - absolutely use any opportunity to improve your english vocab.
I do have to crash the party a bit - GMAC ran a research study on the correlation between studying vocabulary words (fancy ones such as for GRE) and GMAT results and did not find any correlation between studying vocabulary and GMAT performance - that is for Native speakers.
However, if you are not a native speaker - absolutely use any opportunity to improve your english vocab.
