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^ I think that depends on what field you're going into. Most graduate students have to read massive amounts of academic material, almost all of which is full of those strange words on the GRE. I am in anthropology, where reading and writing academic articles is a huge part of my education... and I've found that learning those words and committing them to long-term memory saves a heck of a lot of time. There's enough to do as a grad student without having to use a dictionary every time some scholarly dude pops out a difficult word.
I just remembered something else about GRE vocab, and vocab in general.. ROOTS. Roots are huge. If you took a Romance language, you will be set on quite a few strange words... just by looking at the root. If you can find a list of Greek roots to compliment the Latin ones, you'll be set. Learning one root wil help you recognize 5-10 other words, at least.
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