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Vocabulary
 Vocabulary
• A set of familiar words within a person’s
language.
• Developed with age
• Serves as a useful and fundamental tool for
communication and acquiring knowledge
Vocabulary

The two types of vocabulary-in-context questions:

• Common words
• Less common words

You are asked to identify the meaning of short phrases.

Example: “in its wake” as a consequence

The context determines the meaning

Strategies:

1. Plug in your own word and find the answer

choice that matches
2. Plug each answer choice into the sentence
3. Play positive/negative, then plug in
Examples:
Examples:
“Hard” word

A word which is difficult to understand or spell.

Example:
Question:
 Second meaning words
• Appreciate - To take into account,
recognize the merits of, OR to increase in
value
• Bent - Liking or preference for
• Conviction - Strong belief. Noun form of
convinced.
• Dispatch - Speed, efficiency (e.g. She
completed the project promptly and with
great dispatch)
• Embroider - To falsify, make up stories
about
• Facility - Ability to do something easily
(e.g. a facility for learning languages)
• Grave/Gravity - Serious (ness)
• Hamper - To get in the way of, hinder
• Mint - To produce money, or as an
adjective = perfect, like me
• Provoke - Elicit (e.g. a reaction)
• Qualify - To provide more information or
detail about
• Reconcile - To bring together opposing or
contradictory ideas
• Sap (v.) - To drain (e.g. of energy)
• Sustain (v.) - To withstand
• Temper - To moderate, make less harsh
• Uniform - Constant, unvarying
• Want – Lack
• Yield - To reveal (e.g. an experiment
yields results)
 Additional words
• Acquiesce - Give in, surrender; synonym
for capitulate
• Bolster - Provide support for
• Comprehensive - Thorough, complete
• Didactic - Intended to teach
• Empirical - Derived from experiment or
observation
• Idealistic - Cherishing noble or high-
minded principles, opposite of pragmatic
• Illustrious - Famous, renowned
• Innate – Inborn
• Innovation - New invention or discovery
• Lofty - High-minded
• Myriad – Many
• Partisan - Strong adherent to a party or
idea
• Pragmatic, Prudent – Practical
• Scrutinize - Examine Closely
• Substantiate - Prove; unsubstantiated –
unproven
• Timid - Shy, fearful
• Undermine - Attack indirectly
• Unequivocal - Absolute, certain
• Vernacular - Common, everyday speech