.. title: GRE study thingy
.. slug: gre2
.. date: 2004-09-09 19:38:46
.. tags: content, life, dev

<p>
  I've got one of those GRE study guide prep book things and they have
  a wordlist of 3500 words that I should know.  The breakdown is something
  like this:
</p>
<ul>
  <li>50% are words I already know and use in my daily hooplah
  <li>10% are words I already know but I don't use them
  <li>10% are words I recognize, but couldn't tell you the definition
      if you asked
</ul>
<p>
  That leaves 30% of the words to learn.  Course, that's like 1000
  words so I decided to put all the ones I didn't know in a wordlist
  file and wrote a <a href="/~willkg/cgi-bin/gre.py">quick application</a>
  to pull up a random word from a random wordlist (the 3500 words are
  broken down into 50 or so wordlists) and give me the word and definition.
  I figure I'll start using them in emails and other digital correspondence
  and that way I'll cycle them into my vocabulary.
</p>
<p>
  Feel free to join along in this little game of mine.  It's a game I like
  to call, "I don't want to be studying--I want to be programming".
</p>