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 an empty box, a short description of the word and its image. Your job is to do two things: (1) try your best to write the word into the box, and (2) pronounce it. After that, hit Enter. The card will flip to the back side, and the correct word will appear. The pronunciation will be spoken and your spelling is checked, so that you can learn from your wrongs. The full definition of the word will refine your understanding of the word, so you can use it correctly in writing. After that, clicking the bottom buttons to evaluate the strength of your memory so that Anki can predict when you are about to forget it. If you think an image is meaningless for you and you want to change it, click on it to open Google Images. In your browser, find your preferred image and copy it, then return to Anki. In Anki, click the Edit button, then paste it in the Image field. Another deck of mine to study in parallel with this deck: 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 app 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. For example, if the word you just learn is "chicken" and the current one is "kitchen", then making the sentence "the chicken is in the kitchen" will increase the likelihood of remembering both.
• 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. Inspiring 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)

You can read more about the motivation behind this deck in my website. My related research is about making concrete analogies and big pictures. If you love this deck you will love it too.