GRE Madness!

So I am taking all day today, as well as Thursday through Saturday, to study for my upcoming GRE exam on October 11th. I have been pouring over my Kaplan study guides, and I have decided they can occasionally be completely useless. Allow me to elaborate.

When guessing the definition of words, they told me to consider foreign words that sound similar, to help me guess at the meaning. Mundane, for example, sounds like the Spanish word Mundo. Only one problem, Kaplan. "Mundane" means boring and repetitive, while "Mundo" means "world." What do these two words have to do with each other? Nothing at all! Thanks for the tip!

And it gets better. In Antonym Practice Test #1, question 6 asks me to choose the opposite of the word "abandon." I chose choice 1, "arrival," since to arrive somewhere is the exact opposite of abandoning that location. "We're abandoning Missouri to move to Chicago! Now we arrived in Chicago!" Makes sense to me. But not to Kaplan. They say the correct answer is choice 4, "restraint," since here "abandon" is being used as a noun and not as a verb. Well how am I supposed to know that? It's impossible! I didn't know that being psychic was a prerequisite for the text.

And lastly, my favorite, on AnalogyTest #5, they ask me to choose to analogy for "Pandemonium:Agitation." Now, as best I can remember, "pandemonium" refers to a state of extreme jubliation, usually among a group of college sports fans after their team crushes Michigan. They hug and dance and cheer and high-five everyone in sight. "Agitation" on the other hand, seems to be the opposite. Agitated people are frustrated, edgy, stressed, and difficult to deal with. Try to hug or high-five them, and they may well punch you, probably becuase they were born and raised in Indiana. Knowing this, I chose what I thought was the appropriate answer - until I looked at the answer key. Right there, in BOLD lettering mind you, was this sentence:

PANDEMONIUM is a state of extreme AGITATION.

Did I not get this memo? Have I gone through almost 16 years of fluency in the English language while successfully avoiding the correct definitions of BOTH of these words? I acknowledge that "pandemonium" can also have a negative connotation of like a riot, but this definition is much less used, and is definitely not so commonplace as to say that it is the ONLY definition like Kaplan does.

I think I'm about to erupt into a state of pandemonium.