So here's a collection of material for drills.
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First, a Latin dictionary is a handy thing to have on the computer. This little baby is free, available for the major OSes, and will try to parse any form you give it. It's not perfect, but it is really good.
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For vocab drills, I've got things set up for
The first does multiple-choice, the second lets you choose (under the Learning mode tab in Learning Options), including an option to mix them up, and the last is fill in the blank. Genius also lets you change the answers during the testing and lets you say that you got it right even when it doesn't think so. (This is handy because it lets you give only one of several possible correct answers and still have it count.) For a similar effect in MemoryLifter, change the Learning Options to allow for only one synonym to count as a correct answer.
The only difference between the text files in the table below is the spacer between the items in each line; MemoryLifter has its own file format. Some of the items have had their English definitions shortened a bit for space considerations or (more commonly) so as not to give away their meanings. For example, the entry for et lacks its "both...and..." meaning. This happens typically with correlatives. In places where the word was mentioned, I tried to replace it with "___" so I could keep this part of the definition in. This hasn't been done consistently though.
You'll want to download these files, not (just) view them in your browser. On a Mac, try option-clicking on them to download; on other OS'es, or if you've got a 2-button mouse on your Mac, just right-click and choose download.
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And here's a quick little article by Paul Nation in ESL Magazine on vocabulary teaching.
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Finally a noun-case driller. Not perfect yet, so use the link on the page to send me feedback.
