This list features approximately 1,300 GRE-level words, collated into 500 sets of confusable or related terms. Links are provided to look up each word in the Cambridge English Dictionary online.

A

  • acclivity CD
  • declivity CD

  • acquisitive CD
  • inquisitive CD
  • disquisition CD

  • additive CD
  • addictive CD



  • adherent CD
  • adhere CD

  • adventurous CD
  • adventitious CD

  • advisory CD
  • adversary CD

  • affable CD
  • effable CD
  • ineffable CD
  • ineffable CD
  • ineffaceable CD


  • allergy CD
  • allegory CD

  • altitude CD
  • longitude CD
  • latitude CD

  • amnesia CD
  • insomnia CD

  • amorous CD
  • aromatic CD


  • anonymous CD
  • antonym CD
  • anomalous CD
  • synonym CD
  • acronym CD

  • antecedence CD
  • precedence CD
  • precedent CD


  • aphorism CD
  • sophism CD


  • appreciable CD
  • creditable CD
  • credible CD
  • incredible CD





  • asphyxia CD
  • anoxia CD

  • aspiration CD
  • inspiration CD


  • astigmatic CD
  • stigmatic CD
  • enigmatic CD


  • attenuate CD
  • extenuate CD

  • auction CD
  • audition CD



B




  • baneful CD
  • baleful CD



  • benignity CD
  • benighted CD

  • berserk CD
  • skirmish CD







  • boisterous CD
  • cloister CD

  • bolster CD
  • holster CD







C


  • calculating CD
  • shrewd CD
  • provident CD
  • measured CD
  • hardheaded CD




  • carnage CD
  • carrion CD
  • carnation CD
  • carnival CD
  • carnivore CD

  • cascade CD
  • escalate CD
  • ecstasy CD


  • catalysis CD
  • cataclysm CD

  • cavalry CD
  • revelry CD
  • reverie CD


  • celibacy CD
  • celerity CD
  • celebrity CD
  • celibate CD
  • cerebrum CD

  • censorious CD
  • censure CD

  • centrifugal CD
  • centripetal CD
  • centipede CD

  • cessation CD
  • cession CD
  • secession CD
  • concession CD
  • concision CD



  • clamorous CD
  • glamorous CD

  • clement CD
  • relent CD
  • relentless CD


  • cognate CD
  • cognomen CD
  • congenital CD

  • coltish CD
  • doltish CD

  • commensurate CD
  • consummate CD

  • commotion CD
  • foment CD
  • ferment CD

  • complacent CD
  • complaisant CD
  • compliment CD
  • complement CD

  • concession CD
  • consensus CD

  • conciliation CD
  • reconciliation CD

  • condiment CD
  • sediment CD
  • oddment CD

  • congeal CD
  • congenial CD
  • congenital CD

  • congregation CD
  • aggregation CD

  • conjecture CD
  • conjure CD
  • injunction CD

  • constrict CD
  • restrict CD
  • confine CD

  • contentious CD
  • tendentious CD

  • contiguity CD
  • congruity CD
  • incongruity CD
  • congruent CD

  • contumacy CD
  • contumely CD

  • conversion CD
  • conversant CD
  • convulsion CD


  • convivial CD
  • vivid CD


  • corporate CD
  • incorporate CD

  • covenant CD
  • provenience CD
  • genesis CD





  • cuticle CD
  • cubicle CD

  • cuticle CD
  • cubicle CD

D




  • declaim CD
  • disclaim CD
  • proclaim CD
  • reclaim CD
  • exclaim CD
  • acclaim CD

  • decompose CD
  • discompose CD
  • discomposed CD
  • composure CD

  • decorate CD
  • decorous CD




  • declaim CD
  • disclaim CD
  • proclaim CD
  • reclaim CD
  • exclaim CD
  • acclaim CD

  • decompose CD
  • discompose CD
  • discomposed CD
  • composure CD

  • decorate CD
  • decorous CD


  • deference CD
  • difference CD


  • deleterious CD
  • deteriorate CD


  • demarcate CD
  • decimate CD

  • demography CD
  • dermatology CD



  • deposition CD
  • disposition CD

  • descendent CD
  • ascendancy CD

  • desecrate CD
  • execrate CD
  • execrable CD


  • deteriorate CD
  • inferior CD

  • detonation CD
  • denotation CD

  • deviant CD
  • deviate CD
  • devious CD


  • diatribe CD
  • tirade CD

  • dictate CD
  • dictum CD
  • didactics CD

  • diffuse CD
  • suffuse CD

  • dilate CD
  • dilatory CD

  • diploma CD
  • diplomat CD
  • diplomatic CD

  • disaffected CD
  • unaffected CD

  • disaffection CD
  • defection CD


  • disdain CD
  • abstain CD

  • disingenuousness CD
  • ingeniousness CD

  • disparate CD
  • disparage CD

  • disparity CD
  • impartial CD



  • dispute CD
  • disrepute CD

  • dissimulate CD
  • disseminate CD

  • divagate CD
  • variegated CD








E


  • effigy CD
  • statuette CD

  • elaborate CD
  • deliberate CD

  • electorate CD
  • eclecticism CD

  • eligible CD
  • illegible CD
  • legible CD
  • ineligible CD




  • eminence CD
  • preeminent CD

  • emissary CD
  • emission CD

  • emollient CD
  • emolument CD

  • empyreal CD
  • empyrean CD

  • emulsify CD
  • mollify CD

  • enervate CD
  • venerate CD





  • entomology CD
  • etymology CD
  • ethnology CD


  • entrenched CD
  • trenchant CD

  • environ CD
  • environs CD

  • epidemic CD
  • epidermis CD

  • equivalence CD
  • equivocal CD
  • equivocate CD

  • evacuate CD
  • excavate CD


  • excrete CD
  • execrate CD
  • secrete CD

  • excursion CD
  • excursive CD

  • executioner CD
  • executor CD

  • exonerate CD
  • extraneous CD

  • expatiate CD
  • expatriate CD
  • expiate CD
  • expedite CD
  • expedient CD

  • expeditious CD
  • propitious CD
  • precipitous CD
  • precipitate CD

  • explicable CD
  • explicit CD

  • exploration CD
  • exposition CD

  • expostulate CD
  • extrapolate CD
  • interpolate CD

F


  • factious CD
  • fractious CD



  • fatuous CD
  • infatuation CD

  • felicitate CD
  • facilitate CD



  • fissile CD
  • missile CD



  • flinty CD
  • skin-flint CD


  • fluorescent CD
  • florescent CD
  • effervescent CD



  • fraction CD
  • fracture CD

  • fractious CD
  • fractional CD

  • frivolity CD
  • virility CD
  • vicious CD
  • viscous CD

  • full-bodied CD
  • full-blown CD

  • functionary CD
  • perfunctory CD

  • furnish CD
  • burnish CD
  • furbish CD

  • furtive CD
  • fugitive CD

G


  • gainsay CD
  • ungainly CD






  • genial CD
  • congenial CD

  • gestation CD
  • gustation CD
  • gesticulate CD

  • girdle CD
  • gridiron CD


  • gratify CD
  • gratitude CD
  • ingrate CD
  • ingratiate CD

  • gratuitous CD
  • fortuitous CD
  • gratitude CD


H





  • herbivorous CD
  • herbaceous CD


  • hermetic CD
  • hermetic CD



  • histology CD
  • histrionics CD

  • homology CD
  • homeopathy CD


  • humility CD
  • humiliation CD



  • hypnosis CD
  • synopsis CD

I

  • illimitable CD
  • inimitable CD

  • illustration CD
  • illumination CD


  • impertinent CD
  • impenitent CD

  • imposture CD
  • posture CD
  • importune CD

  • imprecation CD
  • implication CD

  • imprudent CD
  • impudent CD

  • impunity CD
  • immunity CD

  • impute CD
  • imputation CD
  • impunity CD
  • immune CD
  • impugn CD

  • incur CD
  • incursion CD

  • indigenous CD
  • indignant CD
  • indigent CD

  • infantile CD
  • infantry CD
  • infinity CD
  • indefinite CD


  • infusion CD
  • fusion CD

  • initiative CD
  • incentive CD


  • insular CD
  • insulin CD


  • interaction CD
  • counteraction CD

  • intercept CD
  • intercede CD
  • supersede CD
  • interdict CD

  • interment CD
  • intern CD

  • intermittent CD
  • remittent CD
  • unremitting CD

  • inveterate CD
  • invertebrate CD

  • irrational CD
  • irritable CD

  • irreverent CD
  • irrelevant CD

J



K





L

  • lacerate CD
  • ulcerate CD

  • lackadaisical CD
  • lackluster CD

  • larceny CD
  • laceration CD


  • lateral CD
  • literal CD

  • legerdemain CD
  • prestidigitation CD

  • legislate CD
  • legitimate CD


  • libellous CD
  • liberal CD
  • licentious CD


  • liquidate CD
  • liquidize CD

  • litigate CD
  • litigious CD
  • liturgy CD

  • lottery CD
  • littoral CD


  • luminous CD
  • luminary CD
  • numinous CD

  • lustrous CD
  • illustrious CD

M

  • magnitude CD
  • multitude CD

  • malapropism CD
  • solecism CD


  • mandate CD
  • mundane CD

  • maniacal CD
  • manacle CD

  • mannequin CD
  • manikin CD

  • marionette CD
  • martinet CD

  • marital CD
  • martial CD

  • maestro CD
  • virtuoso CD
  • maelstrom CD


  • meretricious CD
  • meritorious CD

  • meticulous CD
  • assiduous CD



  • misdemeanor CD
  • demeanor CD
  • demure CD
  • demur CD


  • momentary CD
  • momentous CD

  • monetary CD
  • monastery CD

  • monopoly CD
  • panoply CD


  • mordant CD
  • dormant CD




  • mutilate CD
  • mutation CD
  • mutinous CD

N


  • nautical CD
  • nocturnal CD


  • nomination CD
  • denomination CD

  • nondescript CD
  • nonentity CD

  • notwithstanding CD
  • nonetheless CD
  • nevertheless CD

  • noxious CD
  • obnoxious CD
  • noisome CD
  • unwholesome CD


O

  • oblation CD
  • libation CD

  • obliterate CD
  • preliterate CD

  • obloquy CD
  • oblique CD
  • opaque CD
  • soliloquy CD

  • obstreperous CD
  • preposterous CD


  • oddments CD
  • condiment CD


  • optimism CD
  • optimum CD
  • premium CD


P


  • palatable CD
  • palatial CD

  • paranoia CD
  • panorama CD



  • pediatrics CD
  • obstetrics CD
  • podiatry CD

  • pending CD
  • impending CD

  • penurious CD
  • pecuniary CD

  • peppery CD
  • piquant CD

  • perforate CD
  • percolate CD
  • colander CD

  • perfunctory CD
  • functionary CD


  • permeable CD
  • pervasive CD
  • perverse CD
  • pervious CD

  • pertinacious CD
  • pernicious CD

  • pervasive CD
  • persuasive CD


  • physiological CD
  • psychological CD


  • potentate CD
  • potent CD

  • precarious CD
  • prevaricate CD

  • predicament CD
  • impedimenta CD


  • prerogative CD
  • perquisite CD
  • prerequisite CD
  • interrogative CD
  • requisite CD

  • presumption CD
  • presumptuous CD

  • pretentious CD
  • contentious CD

  • proclivity CD
  • acclivity CD

  • prodigal CD
  • prodigious CD

  • proliferate CD
  • profligate CD

  • propensity CD
  • progeny CD

  • property CD
  • proper CD
  • propriety CD

  • prorogation CD
  • propagation CD

  • prosecutor CD
  • executioner CD
  • executor CD

  • prospective CD
  • perspective CD
  • perceptive CD
  • prosperous CD

  • protein CD
  • protean CD

  • protrude CD
  • obtrude CD

  • prudery CD
  • prudent CD

  • prurient CD
  • puerile CD



  • punctilious CD
  • compunctious CD

  • putrefaction CD
  • purification CD

Q



  • querulous CD
  • garrulous CD

  • quiescent CD
  • quintessence CD

R



  • rational CD
  • rationale CD
  • ratiocination CD



  • rectitude CD
  • rectify CD


  • recuperate CD
  • vituperate CD
  • turpitude CD

  • redeem CD
  • reclaim CD
  • disclaim CD


  • rehearsal CD
  • herald CD


  • relinquish CD
  • replenish CD

  • remission CD
  • remiss CD
  • remittance CD
  • remittent CD

  • remittent CD
  • intermittent CD



  • repellent CD
  • pestilent CD

  • replace CD
  • displace CD

  • repugnant CD
  • pugnacious CD

  • repugnant CD
  • repudiate CD
  • reprimand CD
  • reprobate CD
  • rebuke CD
  • revile CD

  • rescript CD
  • prescript CD
  • conscript CD

  • resumption CD
  • presumption CD

  • retribution CD
  • tribulation CD





  • rummage CD
  • rampage CD
  • ransack CD

S

  • sacrosanct CD
  • sanctimonious CD
  • sacrilegious CD




  • sardonic CD
  • hedonistic CD

  • saturnalia CD
  • saturnine CD






  • scoff CD
  • spoof CD
  • reproof CD
  • reprove CD
  • disapprove CD
  • disproof CD



  • scrupulous CD
  • unscrupulous CD

  • scuttle CD
  • scuffle CD
  • shuffle CD

  • sedate CD
  • sedition CD

  • sedative CD
  • seditious CD
  • sedulous CD
  • seductive CD

  • seemly CD
  • seemingly CD


  • sensation CD
  • sensational CD
  • sensory CD

  • sequential CD
  • sequacious CD
  • obsequious CD

  • sequentially CD
  • sequaciously CD

  • sequestrate CD
  • sequester CD


  • serrated CD
  • serried CD


  • shattered CD
  • tattered CD


  • shingle CD
  • spangle CD








  • snigger CD
  • niggard CD

  • solidarity CD
  • solitary CD

  • solitude CD
  • solicitude CD

  • somnolent CD
  • solemn CD
  • insolent CD

  • spanking CD
  • sprinkling CD

  • specious CD
  • preciosity CD

  • spendthrift CD
  • thrift CD

  • spiny CD
  • spindly CD
  • spineless CD




  • sprightly CD
  • splashy CD

  • sprightly CD
  • sprinkling CD



  • statuary CD
  • statutory CD
  • statute CD
  • statue CD
  • status CD
  • stature CD

  • stenograph CD
  • stethoscope CD




  • straiten CD
  • strained CD





  • subvention CD
  • subversion CD

  • succumb CD
  • subsume CD

  • suffuse CD
  • suffice CD





  • syllabus CD
  • syllable CD
  • sibling CD

  • syncopate CD
  • synoptic CD

T




  • tangible CD
  • tangential CD

  • tantamount CD
  • paramount CD
  • tantalize CD





  • terrace CD
  • terrain CD

  • thermostat CD
  • hemostat CD



  • titillate CD
  • tantalize CD
  • titivate CD



  • transition CD
  • transaction CD

  • transmogrify CD
  • transfigure CD

U

  • ubiquitous CD
  • iniquitous CD

  • unctuous CD
  • unction CD
  • undulate CD

V

  • vaccine CD
  • vacillation CD


  • vestige CD
  • prestige CD



  • vigorous CD
  • valorous CD

  • vitalize CD
  • vitiate CD


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Y

Z

Note: These words are indexed from the appendix of a book (ISBN 9787553630786) with slight adjustments.