Hey cindi. Don't recite words. Try to remember words within a sentence. Try to remember whole sentence. It would be easy then to remember words and their meanings. For example you learnt a word bad. Now after some days you will forget its meaning if you don't use it. Thn try to remember it with a sentence like - that was a bad person. Now when you recall the word bad this sentence comes to your mind and you will know what its meaning . You will know how and where to use this word. This method will improve your english so much.