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Cloze deletion and synonyms

#1
How are you supposed to make cloze deletion cards with vocabulary in which synonyms exist?

I was thinking of taking some problem words and making cloze deletion cards with them to help me remember them, but I notice a lot probably have synonyms. I haven't really gave it a try yet so I'm not sure how much of a problem it will be though.

Also where is a good place to find sentences?
Example of a bad sentence:
林檎が~です > 林檎が嫌いです
There's no way I would know 嫌い for a sentence like that for example (unless I just remembered the sentence). How do I make sure that it's not ambiguous?
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#2
For vocab, all I have is clozed cards: kanji and kana appear as pairs of cloze-deletions, with English gloss as a click-to-see hint, whether vocab embedded in sentences or by itself. I guess the assumption baked into your question is needing English on the card?

I am curious about what others have to suggest about sentence choice for cloze-deletions. The other day @vileru mentioned Linguee? But seems too spartan, just a single sentence.
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#3
I decided to put Japanese definition on the front for the word in case I didn't know. The thing is, I'm not even writing them, I'm just pronouncing them and seeing if I guess the right word. I'm not sure how helpful it will be. I plan to do it with any words I notice I'm forgetting a lot. We'll see how it works. I would still like advice though if anyone has any.

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Edited: 2014-11-09, 12:57 am
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