This is exactly what I’ve been doing, and is an approach I recommend too. I’ve been on lvl 60 for almost a year, and so far I’ve come across 10 words or kanji while reading manga/books that I forgot or for other reasons wanted to resurrect. Not saying that I remembered all the other words I’ve burned with their meaning and readings, just saying that I wanted to put these items back in the SRS. (蜂 doesn’t count because I burned it as ‘honey’ instead of ‘bee’.)
For those who are interested, the kind @prouleau provided the instruction for how I could get a list of my resurrected items after I lost count of them: