Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #954543 in Books
• Published on: 2004-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback

Customer Reviews

Functional, not very well made
These cards do as they're advertised, but the quality isn't that exceptional.

The printing is crude/obviously word-processed, and they're printed on cheap and relatively fragile paper stock.

Good vocab prep
I found the High frequency words pretty useful, and I think these words only matter anyway. Only I find carrying the flash cards and flashing them around a pain, and they write GEEK all over me. I actually found this cool application that works on the cell phone and has tough GRE words. Google with "GRE tough words" to find it. Best part I liked about it was that the words are on-the-mark and app is well designed for cell phone use.

Good for beginners, but not for fine-tuning
These flash cards are useful if you're really haven't been exposed to the words, but they're not good for fine-tuning your understanding. They'd be good for a non-native speaker or a beginner-- they might take you from a 400 to a 600 score, but not a 600 to 800. The problem is that the definitions are oversimplified: for example, compare their definition of "acumen" as "insightfulness" or "diffident" as "lacking self-confidence" to the definition in a good dictionary, and you'll see how much nuance is being lost, nuance that is essential when choosing which of several words is most appropriate. So, overall: quality good, format useful, but really just a starting place.