The highly efficient GRE Anki deck

This is a flashcard deck to learn the most 500 frequent words on the GRE test. Each card has a front side and a back side. The front side has a blank box and two hints of the word you are learning: a short description and an image. Your job is to try your best to write the word into the box, and at the same time pronounce it, then hit Enter. The card will flip to the back side, and the word appears. The pronunciation will speak up and your spelling is checked, so that you can learn from your try. The full definition of the word will refined your understanding of the word, so that you can see the differences between it and its synonyms. After understanding it, evaluating your memory by the buttons below so that Anki can predict when you are about to forget it. If you think an image is meaningless for you and want to change it, click on it to visit Google Images, find your preferred one, copy it, return to Anki and click Edit, then paste it in the Image field. Another deck of mine: 40 Independent Speaking Questions for TOEFL Test Tips:

• Set Anki to autorun with your computer, so in every morning, not only you won't forget to learn vocabulary, but also you learn it in the best mood of the day. Or use the mobile apps and study it on the bus.
• Try to make an example with the current word and the previous word you just learn. Your chance of remember both will increase.
• Do try your best to remember the word based on the hints before giving up. Active recall is the reason we use flashcard at the first place.
• Don't google the words themselves, google their examples. For example, don't google perfunctory, google perfunctory sex.
• Use learner, bilingual and collocations dictionaries when looking up a word. I recommend Collins COBUILD, but it has limited number of words.

These words are meant to express complicated, entangled ideas in a clear, succinct manner. There is no way to remember all of them of course, but you don't need to be an English native speaker, you just need to be a new you. Many of those words require you to have at least a sorrow experience in your life. Half of them are there so that you can have empathy for others, another half of them help you not getting lost into it. Quotes:

• A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. (Laozi)
• The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning. (Mark Twain)
• Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things (Poincaré) Poetry is the art of giving different names to the same thing (unknown poet)

Visit my website to learn more about the motivation behind this deck. I may think about upgrade it and write more learning tips when I have a stable income. My current project is to capture the real essence of advanced concepts and translate it into flowery language. If you love this deck you will love it too. See Making concrete analogies and big pictures.