<p>I'm befogged whether to take word list or not. Or will I learn roots/ suffix/ prefix? We all, to a certain extent, get some of them down pat. But that's not all. But if you come across a word like: patty, earmark, crease et.c, will you know what it is when you just now the roots alone?</p>
<p>For the vast majority of sentence completions you don’t need to know all of the words in order to get the question right. Use roots and process of elimination and you should be fine. Also the hard sentence completions sometimes have an easy word as the answer, but used to have a different meaning than it usually does.</p>
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<p>Definitely try to learn some of the Latin-based roots if you can. I think it’s a much more practical and useful way to decipher the meanings of words, vs. memorizing 3000 big terms that you’ll never use again.</p>
<p>I find roots very confusing. For example, the word incarcerate seems to mean “not carcerate”, but actually “in” is used to make an verb. Also, “nonplus” seems to mean “not plus” but this is not the case.</p>