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Contents 1 Project Goal 2 Title and Namespace 3 Article Form 3.1 Word Class 3.2 Enumerating Meanings 3.3 Wordlist Link

[edit] Project Goal

The goal of the project is to produce a free GRE word list. Please note the following:

• free means freely accessible, and freely redistributable (under the terms of the Gnu Free Documentation License). We don't want copyrighted material. Please use your own words when contributing to the WWL.
• GRE word list means this: list of words that (more or less) frequently appear in the verbal part of the GRE test. As any word can have multiple meanings, this word list should be focusing on the meanings relevant to the GRE test, i.e. the word defined should be interpreted in the context in which it appears in the GRE test.

Since the majority of the people preparing for the GRE test have not taken the GRE test before, the main sources to be used for the WWL should be practice tests and other GRE word lists.

[edit] Title and Namespace

All words in the WWL should be in lowercase (unless the dictionary definition for the word is in uppercase).

The Wiki Word List (abbr: WWL) project is the main purpose of this wiki site. Thus the Main (unprefixed) namespace is reserved for words in the word list. In that way, word definitions in the WWL will have nice and short URLs, parallel to those of the GREdic wordlist: for example, the URL for abacus in WWL is http://wiki.gredic.com/abacus, and in the (static) wordlist is http://wordlist.gredic.com/abacus.

[edit] Article Form

[edit] Word Class

A word definition should start by indicating the word class (noun, verb, etc.). This should be done using predefined templates, which are called with the double-brace syntax:

• {{n}} for nouns
• {{v}} for verbs, or more precisely:
  • {{vt}} for transitive verbs, and
  • {{vi}} for intransitive verbs
• {{adj}} for adjectives
• {{adv}} for adverbs
• {{conj}} for conjunctions

The templates take care of displaying the word class in full letters, using standard display. For example, {{vt}} displays as: ==transitive verb==

[edit] Enumerating Meanings

If the word has more than one meaning, they should be enumerated. For that, use the built-in enumerating feature by putting each meaning on a separate line, and starting each line with #. For example:

# first meaning
# second meaning

displays as

1. first meaning
2. second meaning

[edit] Wordlist Link

If the word is also included in the (static) GREdic wordlist, the definition should end with a reference to that page. This is easily done using the template:

{{wordlistlink}}

This template automatically adds the page title of the current page and links to the page at wordlist.gredic.com via the wordlist: interwiki link.

You should leave a blank line above {{wordlistlink}}.