通過實例我們來看新舊gre考試對單詞考察的不同，這樣更為直觀。對于新gre考試，其對詞匯的考查大大減弱。Verbal部分將會取消原有的類比與反義詞題目的測試，只剩填空與閱讀兩個部分，而這兩個部分的考察方式也做了一定程度的調(diào)整。
下面就針對新GRE考試中填空與閱讀對詞匯的考察做一些分析。
拿填空部分來講，從樣題上看，改革后的GRE考試在填空中包括了同義詞的辨析、反義詞的辨析、詞匯搭配、詞匯含義精確理解等考察方式，這就要求考生不僅要掌握詞匯的意思，還需要進(jìn)一步了解?？荚~匯的用法和內(nèi)涵。其中樣題的填空類題型direction和例題如下：
For the following questions, select the two answer choices that, when used to complete the sentence, fit the meaning of the sentence as a whole and produce completed sentences that are alike in meaning.
4 . International financial issues are typically by the United States media because they are too technical to make snappy headlines and too inaccessible to people who lack a background in economics.
A. neglected 被忽視的
B. slighted 被忽視的
C. overrated 被高估的
D. hidden 被隱藏的
E. criticized 被批評的
F. repudiated 被拒絕的
從direction和樣題可以看出，填空題由以前的五選一變?yōu)榱肆x二，為什么會做這樣的變化呢?其目的就是可以考察更多的詞匯量。而所選的兩個正確選項由于都要符合題干的意思，所以這兩個詞就必然是同義詞或者近義詞。所以在解題時大家可以先不讀題干，先看選項中是否有同義詞組，如果只有一對的話則答案必然是選這兩個詞，而如果有兩對或者三對時再回到題干由句子意思來判斷應(yīng)該選哪一對同義詞。在此題中我們先不讀題干，直接掃視五個選項，發(fā)現(xiàn)只有A和B這兩個選項是一組同義詞，所以答案就可直接選擇A和B選項，以此方法解題考生如果詞匯量過關(guān)只要五秒種就可解出正確答案，而如果先看題干再讀選項就會花更多的時間。因此掌握大量的同義詞意群對解填空題可以收到事半功倍的效果，詞匯的重要性也就不言而喻了。
下面再看一下樣題中閱讀題是如何對詞匯進(jìn)行考查的。
Questions 9 and 10 are based on the following reading passage.
Scholarship on political newspapers and their editors is dominated by the view that as the United States grew, the increasing influence of the press led, ultimately, to the neutral reporting from which we benefit today. Pasley considers this view oversimplified, because neutrality was not a goal of early national newspaper editing, even when editors disingenuously stated that they aimed to tell all sides of a story. Rather, the intensely partisan ideologies represented in newspapers of the early republic led to a clear demarcation between traditional and republican values. The editors responsible for the papers' content — especially those with republican agendas — began to see themselves as central figures in the development of political consciousness in the United States.
10. In the context in which it appears, "disingenuously" most nearly means
A. insincerely
B. guilelessly
C. obliquely
D. resolutely
E. pertinaciously
此類在閱讀中直接考察詞匯的題目在改革前的GRE閱讀中從未出現(xiàn)過，可見在改革后的GRE考試中并未放松對詞匯的考察。按部就班的解題方法應(yīng)該是通過上下文邏輯關(guān)系推斷出單詞的含義，但是掌握了大量GRE單詞后就完全可以脫離上下文而快速選出答案。由于disingenuously的意思是不真誠的，所以答案選A選項。可見此類題很類似于改革以前的反義詞題型，無非是把它放在閱讀題里對考生進(jìn)行考察。