Tony TP#13

So today is my last day tutoring and I hope Caglar will do well on his GRE exam. Vocabulary was the aim of today's lesson. Apparently there is a section of the GRE where one must match two words to a list of other word. The goal is to see the connection between the two words but this is not Caglar's cheif concern. The words on this portion are HARD. My vocabulary is pretty large and their were maybe three or four that totally escaped me. We went through all fifty questions so that I could not only explain all the definitions but also the correlation between them. He said on his practice exam he only got about half, and to be honest I'm impressed he got that many. It became apparent that he has only 17 days to expand his vocabulary. I recommended that he purchase a sizable dictionary and read through a letter a day so that even if he doesn't remember them all, he could at least recognize them if he saw them again. In addition i showed him the thesaurus and how it could help increase his vocabulary. We worked on another GRE section together, working on the vocabulary, phrases and gramatical corrections had been working on over the past three day, allthewhile sipping Turkish coffee. after an hour and a half I bid him farewell and good luck.