Test your GRE Vocabulary Knowledge - GRE Vocabulary Test Part 3

[@rob9188]

Hey, just thought I'd help you out in understanding the phrase 'the prodigal son returns'. It refers to the story (actually a parable) in the Bible where a son demanded his inheritance (lots of money) from his father then left him. He spent all the money and returned poor to his father many years later. Hence this is the phrase 'the prodigal son returns'. In the Bible, the father embraced his son with joy, welcomed him back with a huge feast, and then scolded his other son for criticizing his zeal for celebrating his son's return in a way he never did for him.

[@gregmat8036]

Awesome man! You rock!

[@danielkifle7173]

haha, I was about to write it here, as I know the story and its allegoric meaning in the bible.

[@shivujagga]

The best way to remember the meaning of arcane - ar + Kane . The kane of WWE wore a mask and his face was mysterious!

[@asdfghjk2933]

I remember it because of the arcane spirit shield in old school runescape.

[@sidrockx95]

I remember the 'Arcane' level in Unreal Tournament xD Very mysterious!

[@cameronzurmuhl4860]

Arcanite from Pokémon was mysterious!

[@swan2799]

Ya thats a good mnemonic, but I somehow think of acne when I see this word, I think if some mysterious acne pops on face which is never removed :)

[@aa.2121]

In Latin, "arca" means chest (as in a treasure chest). A treasure chest probably has some secrets within, and it reminds me what arcane means.

[@mtrihoang]

P3 is a bit harder. I got 24/30. (P2: 27/30 and P1: 25/30). Thanks @GregMat

[@manharchopra]

This was hard. Got 19/30. Have been receiving 25/30 in the previous one.

[@anirudh4946]

@@ronaldobraga6337 how much did you score in gre

[@nhanleb1]

Finally, I'm not the only one who struggle with ARCANE !!!!

[@HitashaSharma]

I am taking my GRE in April this year and am committed to doing all your lists and tests. Thanks a lot Greg for this great assortment of words.

[@raulgonzalez3649]

Hello Hitasha, have you taken the test yet?

[@laminjawo5586]

I hope you had did well on your exam

[@romarssieverything9667]

so?

[@danielk1661]

As a Korean, you totally caught me by surprise when you wrote 피자 haha

[@gregmat8036]

화이팅

[@apudas7]

22/30 I didn’t understand meanings of some options so I got lower score. 28/08/2024 1:51 am.

[@jf2499]

21:20 The prodigal son is a story in the Bible! One son takes his inheritance and leaves the family. He spends it wildly and then returns to his father. His father accepts him back, and the loyal son who stayed home with his father was pissed off that his dad brought him back in. I would read it- it’s a good story!

[@nazaninvafaee3570]

Listen guys, this is literally the best online resource I found for my GRE preparation. I haven't been preparing that long cause I wanted to do the GMAT first but that is one horrible test, I just became anxious studying for it. I have only switched to the GRE since last week so I needed to find online material I could use to study efficiently and this is just perfect. Normally free material is covered with advertisements or user unfriendly formats etc, but your page is perfectly organized, the explanations are useful, I'm just very, very grateful!!!!! Ok back to studying!

[@6066ChetanKhairnar]

Thanks Dude, As a Asian I am not a native English speakers but this videos are helping me lot in learning new words assiduously each day and will someday make 29/30 correct Hoping the day come soon

[@AdvancingHumanNature]

I'd love to delve into the science behind these quizzes - this is the only technique that so deflly solidifies the words for me - I've tried every cartoon flashcard under the sun! Thank you for your time creativity Greg Mat :)

[@lucaa.9709]

I barely got half, wow this was hard and I thought I had a good vocabulary

[@oxanasakagami4607]

Greg, you are doing an amazing job! Thank you a lot for these videos!

[@gregmat8036]

Thank you! A new vocab video comes out every weekend. Make sure you try all of the others as well

[@Hannah-zt3wn]

Okay, your videos have been helping me so much! I've learned almost 120 vocab words in two weeks. Doing flashcards and vocab lists were not helping me at all because I was struggling to remember what the definitions were. But your videos are awesome!

[@showmickkar7793]

P1: 19/30 P2: 22/30 P3: 27/30 (Got lucky in some questions though :3)

[@reinardusjoseph1017]

This is so fun and somewhat challenging, I love it Thanks for sharing this!

[@harllow99]

I love to see my native language 한글! Greg, who really are you!

[@lawb4144]

Note to my future self: 3/1/2021: 17/30 7/1/2021: 22/30

[@english_levelnext709]

Very interesting.👍👍👍..love the way you carry the show forward .It doesn't get boring....

[@sohamdutta4760]

the distinction between city, suburban and countryside, just wow, I never knew the difference 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@rakeshbishnoi4122]

hmmm

[@honest_bishop5905]

@@rakeshbishnoi4122 hmmmmmmm

[@deepakdhaka.]

@@rakeshbishnoi4122 Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[@atharvakale5844]

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[@namratasurve6708]

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[@bilalmohammed0]

Concerning number 11, actually, I was surprised when you picked up "mysterious" for "arcane" while I think it is not mysterious at all, but rather it is less common or less familiar or known to the public, though an arcane idea or concept is discernable and easy to understand when it comes to weighing in against the public.

[@AbiolaAdeleke-d5k]

First attempt (29/10/2024) - 25/30. Please help me learn antipathy, censure, desultory, dilatory and contend.

[@mikegarippo7815]

I wish you would offer these tests with more rapidity between each batch of new words. A short lapse of time is desirable. A full minute between the batches of words really tries a person's patience.

[@gmatbuddy6291]

Alhamdulillah I got 29/30. Not bad. Thanks Greg

[@ruudrapatel2520]

23/30 , ah thought i knew everything, greg proved me wrong

[@susanxiao5726]

28/30 thank you

[@MollyBeane]

My third perfect vocab score in a row. Thanks for your test prep program, Greg. It is excellent!

[@aiglecurtis7227]

29/30 ..(exhaustive and exhausting are different)

[@Cloudcloud210]

love these vocabulary quiz for quick revisions ! thank you !

[@ChuotTheCat]

Thanks Greg!

[@nanabuduhayford2509]

The famous phrase "The prodigal son returns home" is from a famous bible story from Luke 15.

[@alexfan3279]

28/30 auspicious today was conjectural on 3 or 4 words, such as chicanery, polarize and canonize, I confess

[@alexu176]

I wish you would read out the words on first pass for people with hard of hearing and read out the letter answers but great videos, thanks

[@md.arshadulislam8275]

Is there any website where I can practice in a similar way with the latest 1050+ wordlist?

[@swan2799]

Thank you, my exam is by 3 weeks, and I am luck that some of these series are already made and I dont have to wait for a week. I watch one vid a day and works good. again thank you for all these useful videos.

[@anupmasingh9383]

hey how was your exam?

[@swan2799]

@@anupmasingh9383 not that advance but I got the mark I needed. With these videos my verbal points increased by 12 points compare to my previous exam 😋 BTW for me the difficult one was verbal

[@anupmasingh9383]

Congratulations ✨ I take my exam in approx 2 weeks and I've so much left to cover I'm damn worried😵

[@anupmasingh9383]

@@swan2799 ngl verbal ( section) makes me shit my panz lmao

[@swan2799]

@@anupmasingh9383 😀 I think its for most of the student. wish u best of luck.

[@theaizen]

dayumm scored 27/30 thanks greg

[@williamwallace4080]

I'm a native English speaker and in the previous tests, I would always get 25+. I don't understand how non-native speakers do better than me on these tests. Well, they could always be lying or guessing. I also get confused with the other languages I speak so that might be an issue e.g. contendere means to argue/dispute/compete in Italian

[@sakib2735]

I am a non-native and got 28 on this test. Could've got all 30 correct had I been a little less hasty. I guess we take our words game pretty seriously

[@mikiallen7733]

Chicanerie does hold the same meaning in conversational french as well

[@pratikthorat3480]

Woof Tough one 27/30. I learnt a lot hear.

[@bilalmohammed0]

I scored 19/30.

[@ricksancheeez]

Got 20!

[@anirudh4946]

18/30 this is gonna be tougher than it looks

[@yashpalthakur9723]

I'm scoring above 25 am I good to give actual gre or prepare more vocabulary

[@anilpandey9943]

Really great job done ...thank you so much...

[@abaqususer2810]

In part 4 question 25, "a cosmopolitan city" means "a well-developed international city", therefore i think "advanced" rather than "worldly" is more suitable as a replacement for "cosmopolitan". by the way, doesn't "worldly" mean "physical as opposed to spiritual" and "mundane"? hence, i didn't see any overlapping in their(worldly and cosmopolitan) meanings, except for the "world" part in "worldly" and the "cosmo-(universe)" part in "cosmopolitan". Would anyone like to resolve my doubt to the given answer in the video? much appreciated.

[@Abhishek-fe3zs]

I also picked advanced lol, guess it's wrong ja

[@lifeofgradstudent_asif4007]

Match the answers after the exam then listen to Greg's explanation. It might help more. 1.D 5. E 9. D 13. C 17. E 21. D 25. B 29.B 2. B 6. C 10. D 14. A 18. B 22. A 26. E 30. A 3. A 7. C 11. A 15. D 19. C 23. E 27. B 4. E 8. B 12. D 16. A 20. C 24. E 28. C

[@mikiallen7733]

Arcane :hard rock to understand and to conceptualize / theorize , it is mysterious Benedict

[@nahiyanalamgir7056]

I guessed the word, cacophonous, to be related to sound due to the "phonous" suffix. Anything to do with "phone" has something to do with sound.

[@xAetheri]

I just got done taking TOPIK, so suddenly seeing Korean gave me whiplash lol 😂

[@vijayarana6931]

amazing job really helpful

[@ShireSui]

I have to pause here and leave a comment: I'm dying...

[@gregmat8036]

Why are you dying

[@dheerajgowda22]

Arcane - a "MYSTERIOUS" legendary Pokemon .

[@firststep934]

27/30 looks like I am improving,long way to go though

[@yashtanawala6357]

28/30 Thanks

[@Raghujoes]

if I have read/memorize the group list 3, when I supposed to take this test?

[@phuongtam951]

Hi Greg, thank you for the great vocal series! May I ask, for question 18, why is "persuasive" a better choice than "brilliant"? Thank you.

[@chaoSefat]

Same question

[@sayantilovesashiyuvi]

If I may, compelling means you are kind of pursuing someone to believe in what you think. Brilliant, on the other hand, means that the idea is already good enough. You do not have to chase someone to believe in anything, it is already perfect. So, persuasive is of course a better fit here.

[@sayantilovesashiyuvi]

@@chaoSefat If I may, compelling means you are kind of pursuing someone to believe in what you think. Brilliant, on the other hand, means that the idea is already good enough. You do not have to chase someone to believe in anything, it is already perfect. So, persuasive is of course a better fit here.

[@oparachizoma1509]

The prodigal son is a parable from the Christian bible about a son that took his inheritance, spent it extravagantly and later to return home to seek his fathers forgiveness.

[@shritisingh2382]

Got 29/30

[@rahulchandak2772]

Any trick to remember arduous and chicanery?

[@indraneel6601]

arduous - pronounce it as hardous which leads you to difficult. chicanery - recall it as mock chicken which leads you to deception.

[@carlosotero7683]

Hi! Do you still not knowing what 'the prodigal son" means? It basically means that the child (especially a son), that moved to live on his own, ends up coming back to live with his/her parents. I know it because that is the only remaining popular use of the word prodigal (= pródigo) in Spanish.

[@_Jaydeb_Kundu_]

Thank you

[@fledgling_python]

For future reference: 30/30 -> 1st try

[@mosesabunike2055]

26/30 Not bad for a first try

[@user-ss7wd2ev9e]

Please sir make vocabulary more video we want to see part 50😘

[@gregmat8036]

I do one a week.

[@subbu2677]

i thought that complicated is the right answer for 6th one.

[@멍멍-q6t]

Hi from 코리아 ! I saw 피자 in your video. Thank you for your video

[@이루루-i1z]

Very helpful! Thanks a lot!

[@kamaifraser3407]

27/30.

[@xenovialara5028]

24/30 Second attempt burgeoned,abated, vapid, assuaged, abjure, canonized.

[@rushabh_runwal]

13/30

[@reinardusjoseph1017]

Phone number 30 white it's not "evaluated"? Why glory is better than evaluated?

[@xxxmmm364]

4/30 . and 3 of them selected randomly :(

[@adityabhatewara]

Only 2 days left for gre

[@deadshot3142]

27/30 downgrade from my previous 2 where I scored 29

[@pradipkhatri8481]

nice

[@josemariagomezsocola6246]

at first question, why not disdain ??? deference doesn't mean "Difference"??, Respect is not the opposite?

[@asdfghjk2933]

deference and difference are two extremely different words.

[@Abhishek-fe3zs]

27/30 yet again

[@mikiallen7733]

Super low vibrational frequency

[@almamunsiddiki7697]

Can you give the pdf file of the lecture sheets please.

[@cz9923]

www.gregmat.com/recommended-resources

[@shohaghossain5128]

thanks

[@gregmat8036]

You’re welcome

[@kshitizrisal1319]

Cononized: The country with canon always glorify themselves

[@md.fahimkhan730]

27 only

[@blessingisichei5243]

this one was hard omg😭😭

[@torikulislam23]

27/30 😁

[@pranavacharya8690]

bro just flexed his korean lol

[@palashdesai5993]

25/30, could've done 28/30

[@hasan98983]

28/30

[@ritvikasinha4754]

this was the hardest till now. i scored only 21. in test part 2 i scored 27 :'( :'( :'(

[@PiyushKumar-kf7ei]

21

[@SkyrimNerdManiac]

Prodigal son is from the Bible

[@sagarg1645]

25

[@novan0064]

12/30 😒☹️ My bad

[@Ihteshamulhaq296]

Looks like you rely on merriam webster dictionary

[@tajzaful]

15. this was hard

[@gregmat8036]

Tough one

[@Luchoeds]

time to read a bit of the bible when it comes to the prodigal son

[@tusharbedi7915]

the prodigal son returns is taken from the Bible, i guess.

[@lokinepal3468]

7

[@aakashgill97]

30/30

[@rajpatel-xn5qv]

completeddd ouu