Shin Kanzen Master Essential 1000 Words for the Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) N4

Shin Kanzen Master N4 Wordbook lists 1,000 words organised by part of speech and category: work, buildings, illness, transport, and so on. Every word comes with example sentences. Every 200 words or so, a reading passage lets you see the words used in context. The book also covers common prefixes and suffixes with usage examples. A free companion app provides audio for all the words and reading passages. Comes with English, Vietnamese, and Chinese translations and a red overlay sheet for self-testing.

Shin Kanzen Master was designed to build learning into each book alongside the test prep. Vocabulary is harder to do that with, and the Wordbook sub-series seems to be 3A's answer: split it into two books, one for learning and one for testing. This is the learning side. The format is more than a word list. You learn a word, see how it's used in a sentence, then meet it again in a reading passage. If you're using the Vocabulary (語彙) drill book, this pairs with it. It also works on its own if you prefer working through words on a page over flashcard apps like Anki.