Anyone got a trick for memorizing words that don’t use any kanji?

Studying for the N2 right now and, while my vocab knowledge is overall one of my stronger points, and I do pretty well with figuring out from context clues what unknown words mean (provided they use kanji I recognize), I’m encountering some practice questions that are based around words that use kana only.

Some that popped up in example questions:

ぼんやり

ぐらぐら

がらがら

しっとり

Etc.

If I heard someone say them aloud in context, I could maybe figure out what they meant, but in writing, having to pick one to insert into a sentence, definitely not.

Is there some trick to memorizing these sorts of words? Or is it really just endless drills with flashcards? I haven’t really used Anki much historically because I’m not a fan of the interface and I don’t really like having to make cards, so ideally if there’s something I can use other than Anki that’d be great.

Thank you.

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