Can you really improve a GRE Verbal score?

[Jcar]

I went from 550 to a 700.

First time I didn't study at all.

2nd time I basically just made flash cards of the words I didn't know from a couple GRE study guides and memorized them.

It's boring as shit and incredibly time consuming, but memorization of vocabulary is really the only way that you'll ever dramatically improve your score on the GRE verbal section. Which is really what sucks about that section of the test, as doing well on it doesn't have much at all to do with intellect, logic, or reasoning ability. It's mostly just a test of how many arcane and completely useless words you know.

[Heeroluva]

The first time I took it I did horrible (might have been due to lack of studying or not being able to sleep the night before), but before the second time I used verbal flash cards and the workbooks. Ended up increasing but 150, sadly I didn't do as well on the Q the second time around.