GRE Vocabulary Preparation

Master every word.

The adaptive vocabulary platform trusted by thousands of GRE test-takers. Typo-forgiving input, spaced mastery tracking, and three proven study modes.

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The Modes

How it works

Three study modes, each built around active recall rather than passive review. They reinforce the same words in different ways so the learning holds.

Normal Mode screen: a vocabulary word above a typed-answer input, with a mastery tracker showing progress toward four correct answers.

Normal Mode

Type the definition from memory. Each word rotates through a small focused set and has to be answered correctly four times before it's marked as learned. Miss once and the counter resets, which forces genuine recall, not recognition. Typo-tolerant, so a small spelling slip won't break your momentum.

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Flash Cards screen: a vocabulary word with four multiple-choice definition options laid out in a grid.

Flash Cards

Sequential multiple-choice review through the full word list. The best way to make a first pass and see where you stand before committing to deeper drilling.

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Random Flash screen: a randomly selected vocabulary word with four multiple-choice options to identify the correct definition.

Random Flash

Randomized multiple-choice that breaks the pattern recognition sequential review can create. Proves you actually know the word, not just its position in the list.

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The Problem

Most vocab resources make you do all the work

The hard part of learning vocabulary isn't reading a definition once. It's getting the word to stick. Most resources skip that part entirely.

What's out there

  • Static word lists you're left to memorize on your own.
  • Reinforcement left entirely up to the learner.
  • The genuinely useful tools hidden behind paywalls.
  • Bloated apps that bury vocabulary under features you don't need.

What GRE Vocab Tester does

  • Active recall built in: you produce the answer, not just read it.
  • Mastery tracking that won't advance a word until you've proven you know it.
  • Completely free. No paywall, no account required.
  • Focused on one thing: getting GRE vocabulary to stick.
The Story

Why I built this

I built GRE Vocab Tester because I needed it. I had to take the GRE on short notice, and I quickly realized the math wasn't going to be my problem. The vocabulary was. The verbal section leans on a few hundred high-frequency words that show up again and again, and if you don't know them, no amount of test-taking strategy saves you.

When I started, I couldn't pass the verbal section even with unlimited time. I simply didn't know enough of the words. So I went looking for something to help me learn them, and what I found was discouraging. The good resources were locked behind paywalls. The free ones, and plenty of the paid ones, were barely resources at all: static lists of words and definitions with no way to actually practice them. They handed you the content and left the hard part, the reinforcement, entirely up to you.

So I built the tool I wished existed. A focused, free app that does the reinforcing for you, drilling words through active recall until they actually stick. I used it to study for my own exam, and in a short period I went from failing the verbal section with unlimited time to scoring a 160 under real test conditions. It worked. So I kept it free and put it online for everyone else taking the same test.

The Word List

The words that actually show up

GRE Vocab Tester is built on a curated set of 800 high-frequency GRE words, drawn from past papers and reputable prep sources, then deduplicated and normalized into a single clean list. No padding with words you'll never see. Just the vocabulary that consistently appears on the test.

You can study the full list, or focus on a smaller set with Word Packs: curated subsets you can work through, share, or build yourself.

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  • 8,000+monthly active users
  • Worldwidetest-takers using it
  • Freeno account required
  • 800high-frequency GRE words

Built by one person who needed it, and kept free for everyone else who does too.

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No signup. No paywall. Just open a mode and start.

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