Midterm Studying Stratagies

I plan on making flashcards for each of the words and then reviewing the flashcards over and over, removing the ones I have memorized as I go, until I have them all memorized. This strategy has always worked for me in the past. It's easy and fast. It will probably take me an hour to memorize all the words. The only problem with this strategy is that it doesn't help me in the long run. Once I take the test, all that hard work goes down the drain and I can only remember about half the words I had previously memorized.