Afterwards, study the roots of the word, prefixes, and suffixes. For example, when you see a word like cooperative, you know that prefix (co) means together, and the root (operative) means work. Therefore, you can infer that cooperative means working together. After reading a word use mnemonics. Try to link it to a memory, something funny, or anything that helps you somehow to remember the word. For instance, the sound of the word pragmatic is similar to its synonym’s sound “practical”. They both start with “pra”, so you can think of this and memorize using this technique.
Subsequently, study the flash cards. After you wrote down the words and everything, read them for the second and third time. The next day, read the words again, but this time challenge yourself by only looking at the words and attempt to remember their definition. While doing this, put the words that you remember together, and put those you don’t remember together, so you can review them later. After a three days, go over all of them and review.