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		<title>Turn Up the Volume &#038; Get Ready to Study with Manhattan Prep</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Oct 2013 15:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Music can do a lot for us, but the word is still out on whether it can enhance our ability to stay focused and sharpen our memories during long study sessions. On the one hand, we have a report from the University of Toronto suggesting that fast and loud background music can hinder our performance [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Music can do a lot for us, but the word is still out on whether it can enhance our ability to stay focused and sharpen our memories during long study sessions. On the one hand, we have <a href="//pom.sagepub.com/content/early/2011/05/19/0305735611400173">a report from the University of Toronto</a> suggesting that fast and loud background music can hinder our performance on reading comprehension. On the other, there’s the recent<br />
<a href="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gre/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/2013/10/music-to-help-you-study.png"><img decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" class="alignright  wp-image-6382" alt="Music to help you study" src="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gre/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/2013/10/music-to-help-you-study.png" width="322" height="322" srcset="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gre/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/2013/10/music-to-help-you-study.png 403w, https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gre/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/2013/10/music-to-help-you-study-150x150.png 150w, https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gre/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/2013/10/music-to-help-you-study-300x300.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 322px) 100vw, 322px" /></a> <a href="//www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU1310/S00358/listening-to-music-while-you-study-makes-you-smarter.htm">research</a> from the digital music service, <a href="https://www.spotify.com/us/">Spotify</a>, and Clinical Psychologist Dr. Emma Gray, which proclaims that pop hits from artists like Justin Timberlake, Katy Perry, and Miley Cyrus can actually enhance our cognitive abilities.</p>
<p>“Music has a positive effect on the mind, and listening to the right type of music can actually improve studying and learning,” says Dr. Gray. She even suggests that students who listen to music while studying can perform better than those who do not.</p>
<p>We also cannot leave out the so-called “<a href="//www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1281386/">Mozart Effect</a>,” which alleges that listening to classical music provides short-term enhancement of mental tasks, like memorization. We’ve heard students swear by this tactic, while others say that silence is golden.<br />
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With so much conflicting information out there, it seems reasonable to conclude that listening to music—whether instrumental or with lyrics— <em style="line-height: 18px">while</em> studying effects individuals differently. Assuming that this is the case, we have decided to put our own unique spin on this conversation—how about music to play that <em style="line-height: 18px">gets you ready</em>,<em style="line-height: 18px"> </em>and dare we say <em style="line-height: 18px">excited</em>, to study? After all, there are plenty of playlists out there to get us pumped up to <a href="//www.fuse.tv/2012/10/top-100-party-playlist-full-countdown-recap#1">party</a>, to <a href="//thoughtcatalog.com/ryan-oconnell/2012/05/8-songs-that-will-put-you-to-sleep-faster-than-an-ambien/">sleep</a>, and even to <a href="//blogs.dallasobserver.com/dc9/2011/04/listomania_30_songs_that_make.php?page=all">eat</a>.</p>
<p>We’ve asked our team of Manhattan Prep instructors to share some songs that motivate them to hit the books and that can hopefully do the same for you. If the upbeat melodies of the first half of our playlist don’t do the trick, we’ve also included some of the classical variety to ease you into study mode. Heck, even if this turns into a dance party for one, at least we’ve helped you relieve some stress—and that counts for something when it comes time to study!</p>
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		<title>Five Music Albums Packed with GRE Vocab</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jane Cassie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jul 2013 13:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Some song writers really like their vocab! While you probably won&#8217;t pick up a lot of GRE words listening to Justin Beiber, here are just a couple suggestions where you might actually enjoy picking up some new vocab. 1. Tidal, Fiona Apple. A 90s classic, if you were a teenage girl in the 90s. Pop [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="//www.manhattanprep.com/gre/blog/index.php/2013/07/02/five-music-albums-packed-with-gre-vocab/music/" rel="attachment wp-att-5508"><img decoding="async" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-5508" title="music" src="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gre/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/2000/music-293x300.png" alt="music" width="293" height="300" /></a>Some song writers really like their vocab! While you probably won&#8217;t pick up a lot of GRE words listening to Justin Beiber, here are just a couple suggestions where you might actually enjoy picking up some new vocab.</p>
<p><em style="line-height: 18px">1. <strong>Tidal</strong></em><strong>, Fiona Apple</strong>. A 90s classic, if you were a teenage girl in the 90s. Pop in a copy of <em style="line-height: 18px">Tidal</em> on your drive to work and you&#8217;ll be exposed to words such as undulate, appeasing, embers, carrion, divination, acquaint, resounded, coercion, inversion, stifled, deviant, sullen, oblivion, cunning, condescend, abound, enrapture, wary, reverence, endeared, discern, oblige, covet, demeanor, contusion, adagio, intrusion, and endeavor.</p>
<p>2.  <strong><em style="line-height: 18px">HMS Pinafore</em>, Gilbert and Sullivan</strong>. Okay, seriously, <em style="line-height: 18px">any</em> Gilbert and Sullivan you can get yourself to enjoy is going to fill you with vocab words. This show alone has got saucy, frivolous, depraved, resigned, melodious, consolation, menial, pine, gallant, eloquence, pennant, sprightly, articled, tar, dictatorial, furl, scorn, domineering, tyrant, protrude, audacious, anguish, ignoble I didn&#8217;t even make it through half of the songs. And this might be the lightest on vocab of all the Gilbert and Sullivan choices.</p>
<p><em style="line-height: 18px">3. <strong>Black on Both Sides, </strong></em><strong>Mos Def</strong>. If you&#8217;re a rap fan, this is a fantastic album that you probably already have in your collection. If not, you might check it out if you want the chance to pick up words such as armament, sentiment, brandish, dispossessed, rivalry, saturated, infatuate, glisten, nemesis, scrutinize, staccato, vibrantly, apparition, odyssey, treacherous, testament, beneficent, manifest, reverence, temperament, firmaments, ubiquitous, ephemera, and flagrant, to name just a few.<br />
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<em style="line-height: 18px">4. <strong>Aladdin, </strong></em><strong>Walt Disney</strong>.<em style="line-height: 18px"> </em>Where can you find the words immense, barbaric, coterie, hordes, menagerie, gawk, grovel, asunder, flunky, whim, warble, terminal, genuflect, nauseous, obnoxious? On the <em style="line-height: 18px">Aladdin </em>soundtrack. Disney soundtracks have got all kinds of vocab words: consternation, precocious, deride, prattle, minions, qualm, route, derogate, pontificate, reprimand, prattle, provincial, fathom, illustrious, meticulous, sordid, flotsam, fakir, vulgar, licentious, jetsam, repented, idle, atrocious, meticulous, tenacity, incessantly, and blighter are all hiding out in Disney soundtracks. Hey, they have a lot of rhyming to do!</p>
<p><em style="line-height: 18px">5. <strong>For the Roses</strong></em><strong>, Joni Mitchell</strong>. If you sing along with <em style="line-height: 18px">For the Roses</em>, you&#8217;ll find yourself using laden, furrowed, bustled, bedlam, tenement, gristle, rambling, folly, paranoia, scrutinize, buckle, resounding, speculation, undermined, resigned, dismal, scorn, tithe, refinement, contempt, and unfettered.</p>
<p>Should you learn all your GRE vocab from the radio? Definitely not. But start listening for words you don&#8217;t know in songs and finding out what they mean. If you start integrating your GRE studying into your daily life, going after words you come across but can&#8217;t really define, things are going to stick with you in a way that flashcards alone never will.</p>
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