GRE vocab: “Different Types of Government”

1. Theocracy (n): a system of government in which priests rule in the name of god.
2. Oligarchy (n): a small group of people having control of a country or organization.
                         : a country governed by an oligarchy.
3. Plutocracy (n): government by the wealthy
                         : a state or society governed in this way
                         : an elite or ruling class whose power derives from their wealth.
4. Gerontocracy (n): a state, society or group governed by old people
                              : government based on rule by old people.
5. Junta (n): a military or political group that rules a country after taking power by force.

Gre Vocab:study of the subjects and specialists

Study of the Subject (n) Specialist (n)

1. Anthropology anthropologist
Anthropology (n): the study of humankind, including the comparative study of societies and cultures and the science of human zoology and evolution.

2. Alchemy alchemist

the medieval forerunner of chemistry, concerned particularly with attempts to convert base metals into gold or to find a universal elixir
: a seemingly magical process of transformation, creation etc

3. Cardiology cardiologist
The branch of medicine concerned with diseases and abnormalities of the heart

GRE Vocab: “words related with age”

1. Senility (n): old age; feeblemindedness of old age.
   
2. Hoary (adj): greyish white
                       : having grey hair; aged
                       : overused and trite
3. Coeval (adj): having the same age or date of origin; contemporary
                (n): a person of roughly the same age as oneself; a contemporary
4. Superannuated: retired by age
5. Dotage (n): the period of life in which a person is old and weak
6. Gnarled (adj): knobby, rough, and twisted, especially with age.
7. Doddering (adj): slow and unsteady. 

GRE VOCAB: “words related to journey”

1. Wanderlust: excessive desire for travel

2. Peregrination (n): travel or wander form place to place

3. Sojourn (n): a temporary stay
(v): stay temporarily.

4. Odyssey (n): a long and eventful or adventurous journey or process

GRE analogies: “Symbols and Representation”

In this type of analogy, one word stands for or represents a concept, action, or thing.

For example

CARET: INSERT

a. colon: sever

b. pie: exponentiate

c. gun: lance

d. period: stop

e. scalpel: delete

TACTIC:

Identify the relationship between BOLD TYPED words.

Here the relation is: a CARET (^) is an editing symbol that indicates where a word should be INSERTED.

Choose the answer pair with the most similar relationship

similarly; a PERIOD (.) is a grammatical symbol indicating STOP. The answer is D.



Other “symbol analogies type of questions mostly asked on GRE exams are”

1. DOVE: PEACE

2. scales: justice

3. torch: liberty

4. pout: anger

5. beaver: hardwork

6. bee: hardwork

7. caret: insert

8. cornucopia: abundance

9. fox: cunning

10. laurel: victory

11. mace: authority

12. period: stop

13. Trojan horse: deception

14. olive branch: peace