Hello Ximen, Practicing "repetition" through writing , reading,chatting and exercising.

I think the best way to remember words is to read more often. Those regular words will pop up every now and then. If you use the same method as learning chinese, it will be very difficult to memorize the words because you don't use it often enough and soon you will forget most of them.

write that word down a big paper, and paste it in your bedroom for a week =)

the best way .every day memorize 4 or 3 words and the end of month check your mind for this words . in 1month you will have 120 words and in 1years you will have at least 1200 words

i don't know if this works for you but try looking out for sentences/lines/conversations which use that word. that way, you'll be able to know the meaning of the word in the context. or you can associate the word with something already familiar to you.