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| Kaplan GRE Exam Vocabulary Prep | 
 enlarge | Author: Kaplan
Publisher: Kaplan Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $14.00
Buy New: $8.29
You Save: $5.71 (41%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.1 x 0.7
ISBN: 1419550020
Dewey Decimal Number: 378
EAN: 9781419550027
Publication Date: August 6, 2008
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Product Description
-- 500 of the hardest and most-tested GRE vocabulary words -- Sample sentences provide the words in context -- Includes synonyms and a pronunciation key
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Typos Galore September 19, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I bought this book to carry with me during my commute to work. It is about the size of a paperback novel and it is very conducive to studying while you travel. That is about the only thing it has going though.
Frankly, after running across mistake after mistake I got more than a little peeved. Here is a company selling an overpriced book, that basically just requires typing up some definitions, and they didn't even have the courtesy to do a proof-read. Mistakes I found include:
-Misspelled words
-Words in the incorrect alphabetical order
-Using the word itself as it's own definition
-Using the word itself at it's synonym
-Forgetting to list the synonyms
-Repeating the same definition twice for the same word ( ex. "strong; forceful; strong"
-Using words found later in the book as the definition for the earlier "easier" words
I know these are nit-picky things, but there is just something annoying about holding a 14 dollar book meant to teach you new words and realizing that the company selling it didn't even run a spell-check. Plus this book is really bare-bones(no learning activities or root word lists like in Barron's), combine that with a hefty price tag, not a lot of words (490), and lots of typos and you start feeling like you got bamboozled.
If you really need a small book for travel then maybe it would warrant a purchase (although you might be better off with Barrons Essential Words book). It obviously does a satisfactory job of telling you a word and then it's definition, but you could get more bang for your buck elsewhere.
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