This is a great supplement to GRE exam study books. While not focusing on how to answer specific exam questions, it does build the critical vocabulary you need for the test. It gives you both definitions and context for the words, as well as numerous drills to help you practice them. I think that combination helped me understand these words a lot more effectively than just studying a list that the comprehensive exam guides tack on the end.

It really helped me with a lot of words. I still haven't taken the test, but my ability in practice tests has already improved a lot.

So, did this book give me a plethora of vocabulary to learn? It sure did. Did I see any of my new words on the GRE? I sure did see one. Yes. One. I learned all 300 absolutely essential words, plus a good chunk of the rest of the 500, plus some tasty prefix morsels. And ONE word came in handy.

But hey. I know what amalgamate means. Booyah.

If you like to learn vocab, then sure, get this book.
If you like to learn GRE vocab, I'm not sure this is the book for you. I knew all the words on the GRE.

I'm an international student and this book helps me a lot. I remember all the word and understand how to use it. Even you don't take the test, it is good to know these words for graduate level. Thanks Barron.

HEY I PURCHASED IT OVER ONE MONTH AGO AND IT WAS ESTIMATED TO BE DELIVERED THE 1TH OF FEBRUARY. NOW, CAN I PLS HAVE WHOT I BOUGHT AN IT'S MINE?

The book is excellent,i learn't nearly 300 new words in a week or so,it would nice if they had more than 800 words but I guess there are other books for it

I was having so much trouble learning vocabulary before the GRE but this helped so much. I learned the words quickly thanks to how this book was set up and the next time I took the GRE I rocked the vocab section. This book is a must.

I was surprisingly disappointed by Barron's Essential Words for the GRE. While I thought the variety of words and definitions were excellent, I felt that the exercises were lacking. Many of the sentence completion exercises were unclear or too obvious (sometimes using a different form of the word in the same sentence, thus cluing me into what the answer should be, even if I don't remember the word itself), or only able to be determined through the use of elimination in a word list. There were also a lot of obvious errors in the answer key, which is especially frustrating when scoring myself. I think that Barron's can produce something much better than this, if not by developing better sentence completion sections, at least by having a correct answer key. I give it three out of five stars, because the words and definitions are helpful, as are the word roots, but the helpfulness of the exercises and the trustworthiness of the answer key are sorely lacking.

This book is very well organized, this book will help you to learn and memorize numerous words in short period.
Each unit contains 10 words with explanation and examples, after that, there are some exercises that helps to memorize the words. In just 1 week, I memorized about 600 words. I really recommend this book.