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Hello, everybody! Ready to start learning the GRE?
Let's start with analogies. In some ways they are
the easiest part of the GRE; in other ways, they are
the hardest part of the GRE.
When are analogies easy? When you have a good English
vocabulary. If you know lots of words in English,
then the analogies section should be a breeze.
When are analogies hard? When your English vocabulary
is not so strong. You will need to learn lots of new
words for the GRE. In fact, the GRE is famous for
its many thousands of words, many of which we rarely
use.
What is an analogy?
Here's an example:
apple : fruit :: carrot
: vegetable
First off, how do we
read this?
We say, "apple is
to fruit as carrot is to vegetable."
Now, let's look more
closely at the analogy. We should be able to see that
apple is related to fruit in
the same way that carrot is related to vegetable.
In both cases, the first word is a member of the
group of the second word--an apple is a kind of fruit;
a carrot is a kind of vegetable.
When we explain the relationship in a sentence, we
have made a relationship sentence, a relationship,
a connection, or a bridge between the
two words. At TestMagic, we will use the word bridge.
It is very important to make good bridges between
the two words.
Let's do some practice.
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