GMAT Verbal Section | "Ultimate" Study Plan for Verbal on the GMAT

I have mentioned this somewhere else - you don't need to study vocabulary just for the sake of vocabulary (unless your English is bad of course) but assuming you have some proficiency, make the judgement as you go. If you encounter a word that does not seem important in James Clavel's Shogun (armor element, for example), then you can skip it but if you are seeing the same word a few times, I would write it out, and make sure you know it.

I actually looked up almost all words (but did not write