1．ability,capability,capacity,faculty 1
2．abjure,adjure 2
3．above,over 2
4．abrogate,arrogate 3
5．abysmal,abyssal 4
6．accede,exceed 4
7．accent,accentuate 5
8．accept,except 6
9．acceptance,acceptation 7
10．access,excess 7
11．accessary,accessory 8
12．accompany by,accompany with 8
13．according as,according to 9
14．act,action 9
15．activate,actuate 11
16．adapt,adopt,adept 12
17．address,discourse,lecture,oration,speech,talk 13
18．adhere,cohere 14
19．adherence,adhesion 14
20．adjoin,adjourn 15
21．admission,admittance 15
22．adopted,adoptive 16
23．advance,advanced 17
24．adverse,averse 18
25．advert,avert 19
26．affect,effect 19
27．affectation,affection 20
28．afflict,inflict 21
29．afterward,afterwards 22
30．aggravate,irritate 22
31．agree on,agree to,agree with 22
32．aid,aide 23
33．all ready,already 23
34．allusion,delusion,illusion 24
35．alternate,alternative 25
36．although,though 26
37．all together,altogether 27
38．ambiguous,ambivalent 27
39．amend,emend 28
40．amiable,amicable 29
41．among,amongst 29
42．among,between 30
43．amoral,immoral 30
44．amount,number 31
45．ante-,anti- 32
46．anxious,eager 32
47．anybody,anyone,any one 33
48．apparently,evidently 34
49．appendixes,appendices 34
50．appraise,apprise 35
51．apt,liable,likely 35
52．archive,archives 36
53．arctic,arctics 37
54．arise,rise 37
55．around,about 38
56．around,round 38
57．arouse,rouse 39
58．artificial,counterfeit,fake,false 39
59．artful,artistic 40
60．as if,as though 41
61．assassin,murderer 41
62．assay,essay 42
63．assent,consent 42
64．assignation,assignment 43
65．assume,presume 43
66．assurance,insurance 44
67．assure,ensure,insure 44
68．attribute,contribute 45
69．authentic,genuine 46
70．avenge,revenge,vengeance 46
71．avocation,vocation 47
72．avoid,elude,evade 47
73．await,wait 48
74．awake,awaken;wake,waken 48
75．backward,backwards 50
76．bad,badly 50
77．balk,baulk 51
78．balmy,barmy 51
79．barbarian,barbaric,barbarous 52
80．base,basis 53
81．bath,bathe 54
82．because,as,for,since 54
83．below,beneath;under,underneath 55
84．benevolent,benign,beneficent,beneficial 56
85．bereaved,bereft 57
86．beside,besides 57
87．blond,blonde 58
88．bloom,blossom 59
89．boat,ship 59
90．born,borne 59
91．borrow,lend 60
92．brain,brains 61
93．breach,breech 61
94．breath,breathe 62
95．bring,take,fetch 62
96．burglarize,burgle 63
97．burned,burnt 63
98．calendar,calender,colander 64
99．can,may 64
100．cannon,canon 65
101．cannot,can't,can not 65
102．canvas,canvass 66
103．capital,capitol 66
104．Catholic,catholic 67
105．censure,censor,censer 67
106．centenary,centennial 68
107．center,middle 68
108．center on,center around 69
109．centigrade,Celsius,Fahrenheit 69
110．ceremonial,ceremonious 70
111．champaign,champagne 70
112．cheap,cheaply 70
113．check,cheque 71
114．childlike,childish 72
115．choice,alternative,option,selection 72
116．civic,civil,civilian 73
117．classic,classical 74
118．clean,cleanly 75
119．clear,clearly 75
120．clench,clinch 76
121．clew,clue 76
122．client,customer 77
123．climactic,climatic,climacteric 77
124．coarse,course 78
125．coherent,cohesive 78
126．collaborate,co-operate 79
127．comic,comical 80
128．compare,contrast 80
129．competition,contest 81
130．complement,compliment,supplement 82
131．complex,complicated 83
132．compose,comprise,constitute 83
133．compulsive,compulsory 84
134．concept,conception 85
135．confidant,confidante,confident 85
136．consequent,consequential,subsequent 87
137．consist in,consist of 88
138．constrain,restrain 89
139．contagious,infectious 89
140．contemptible,contemptuous 90
141．continual,continuous 90
142．continuance,continuation,continuity 91
143．convince,persuade 92
144．cost,price 92
145．council,counsel,consul 93
146．credible,creditable,credulous 94
147．critic,critique 94
148．currant,current 95
149．daresay,dare say 95
150．data,datum 96
151．deadly,deathly 96
152．dear,dearly 97
153．deceitful,deceptive 97
154．decry,descry 98
155．defective,deficient 98
156．dependent,dependant 99
157．depositary,depository 99
158．deprecate,depreciate 100
159．derisive,derisory 100
160．desert,desert,dessert 101
161．detract,distract 101
162．device,devise 102
163．diagnosis,prognosis 102
164．different from,different than,different to 103
165．differentiate,distinguish 104
166．direct,directly 105
167．discover,invent 106
168．discreet,discrete 106
169．disinterested,uninterested 107
170．dispatch,despatch 107
171．dispense,dispose 108
172．displace,replace 109
173．disposal,disposition 110
174．dissatisfied,unsatisfied 111
175．distinct,distinctive 111
176．distrust,mistrust 112
177．doubtful,dubious 113
178．draft,draught 113
179．drunk,drunken 114
180．dying,dyeing 115
181．each other,one another 115
182．earthen,earthly,earthy 116
183．east,easterly,eastern 117
184．easy,easily 117
185．eatable,edible 118
186．economic,economical 118
187．educationist,educator,teacher 119
188．e.g.,i.e 120
189．effective,effectual,effecacious,efficient 121
190．either,neither 122
191．elder,eldest,older,oldest 123
192．elemental,elementary,alimentary 123
193．electric,electrical 124
194．else,else's 125
195．emigrant,immigrant,emigre 125
196．eminent,immanent,imminent 126
197．emotional,emotive 127
198．endeavor,attempt,try 127
199．enviable,envious 128
200．envy,jealousy 128
201．equal to,equal with 129
202．erode,corrode 130
203．errant,arrant 131
204．erupt,irrupt 131
205．especially,specially 132
206．everyday,every day 132
207．evoke,invoke 133
208．exceedingly,excessively 133
209．exceptionable,exceptional 134
210．excuse,pardon 135
211．expedient,expeditious 135
212．explicit,implicit 136
213．exterior,external,extraneous 137
214．extract,extricate 137
215．facility,faculty 138
216．factious,factitious,fictitious,fractious 138
217．fallacious,fallible 139
218．farther,further;farthest,furthest 140
219．fervent,fervid 140
220．fine,finely 141
221．fictional,fictitious 142
222．flaunt,flout 142
223．fleshly,fleshy 143
224．folk,folks 143
225．forbear,forebear 144
226．forceful,forcible,forced 144
227．foreword,preface 145
228．formally,formerly 145
229．former,latter;first,last 146
230．forward,forwards 147
231．foul,fowl 148
232．glance,glimpse 148
233．good,well 149
234．goodwill,good will 149
235．graceful,gracious 150
236．had better,had best 151
237．hanged,hung 151
238．hard,hardly 152
239．hardly,scarcely,barely 152
240．hardy,hearty 153
241．healthful,healthy 154
242．high,highly 154
243．high,tall 155
244．hire,rent 156
245．historic,historical 156
246．homograph,homophone,homonym 157
247．honorable,honorary 157
248．human,humane 158
249．idle,idol 158
250．if,whether 159
251．illegal,illegitimate,illicit 160
252．illicit,elicit 161
253．imaginary,imaginative 162
254．immature,premature 162
255．imperative,imperious 163
256．imply,infer 164
257．impracticable,impractical 164
258．impunity,immunity 165
259．incredible,incredulous 165
260．infamous,notorious 166
261．informant,informer 166
262．ingenious,ingenuous 167
263．inhibit,prohibit 167
264．inhuman,inhumane 168
265．inquiry,enquiry 169
266．insensible,insensitive 169
267．intense,intensive 170
268．interpretative,interpretive 171
269．intolerable,intolerant 171
270．inversion,diversion,perversion 172
271．judicial,judicious 173
272．laden,loaded 173
273．landward,landwards 174
274．laudable,laudatory 174
275．lawyer,attorney,barrister,counsel,counselor,solicitor 175
276．leave,let 176
277．legible,readable;illegible,unreadable 176
278．lend,loan 177
279．less,lesser,fewer 178
280．licence,license 178
281．lie,lay 179
282．lighted,lit 180
283．lightening,lightning 180
284．like,as 181
285．loath,loth,loathe 182
286．loner,loaner 183
287．loose,loosen 183
288．loud,loudly 183
289．lunch,luncheon 184
290．luxuriant,luxurious,luxury 185
291．mad,angry 186
292．madam,Madame,Ma'am 187
293．magic,magical 187
294．magnate,magnet 188
295．malevolent,malicious,malignant 188
296．Manifold,manyfold 189
297．manly,mannish 190
298．mantel,mantle 190
299．marital,martial 190
300．masterful,masterly 191
301．material,materiel 191
302．may,might 192
303．maybe,may be 192
304．meantime,meanwhile 193
305．meretricious,meritorious 194
306．mightily, mighty 194
307．missal,missile,missive 195
308．molten,melted 195
309．momentary,momentous 196
310．moral,morale 196
311．most,mostly 197
312．Mr.,mister 197
313．Mrs.,missis 198
314．MS,Ms 198
315．mutual,common,reciprocal 199
316．naught,nought 200
317．naval,navel 200
318．near,nearly 200
319．nearby,near by 201
320．need,needs 202
321．negligent,negligible 203
322．none,no one 203
323．notable,noticeable 204
324．obligate,oblige 204
325．oblivious,neglectful 205
326．observance,observation 206
327．obsolescent,obsolete 206
328．obverse,reverse;inverse,converse 207
329．offhand,offhandedly 208
330．official,officious 208
331．ordinance,ordnance 209
332．orient,orientate 209
333．ostensible,ostentatious 210
334．partially,partly 211
335．passable,passible 211
336．passed,past 212
337．peaceable,peaceful 212
338．peal,peel 213
339．percentage,percent 214
340．perceptible,perceptive,perceptual,percipient,sensible 215
341．peremptory,perfunctory 216
342．permissible,permissive 216
343．perpendicular,vertical 216
344．perpetrate,perpetuate 217
345．perquisite,prerequisite 217
346．persecute,prosecute 218
347．personal,personnel 218
348．perspective,prospective 219
349．physic,physics,physique 220
350．piteous,pitiable,pitiful 220
351．pore,pour 221
352．practicable,practical 221
353．practice,practise 222
354．pray,prey 222
355．precede,proceed 223
356．precedence,precedent 223
357．precipitate,precipitous 224
358．predicate,predict 224
359．premise,premises,premiss 225
360．prerequisite,requisite 225
361．prescribe,proscribe 226
362．presumptive,presumptuous 226
363．preventative,preventive 227
364．principal,principle 227
365．prise,prize 228
366．prodigy,protege 229
367．program,programme 229
368．prohibit,forbid 230
369．prone,supine,prostrate 231
370．proposal,proposition 231
371．prosaic,prosy 232
372．proved,proven 232
373．provident,providential 233
374．prudent,prudential 233
375．puncticious,punctual 234
376．pupil,student 234
377．purposefully,purposely 234
378．questionable,questioning 235
379．rack,wrack 235
380．racket,racquet 236
381．raise,rise 236
382．ravage,ravish 237
383．real,really 238
384．reason,cause 238
385．recollect,remember 239
386．recur,recurrence;reoccur,reoccurrence 239
387．regretful,regrettable 240
388．reign,rein 240
389．relation,relationship 241
390．relation,relative 242
391．remediable,remedial 242
392．repairable,reparable 243
393．repellent,repulsive 243
394．replace,substitute 244
395．respectfully,respectively 245
396．respective,respectively 245
397．reversal,reversion 246
398．rich,wealthy 246
399．right,rightly 247
400．rigor,rigour 248
401．rock,stone 248
402．role,roll 249
403．rout,route 249
404．rural,rustic 250
405．salary,wage 250
406．sanguinary,sanguine 251
407．sank,sunk,sunken 251
408．seasonable,seasonal 252
409．sensual,sensuous 252
410．shall,will 253
411．sheared,shorn 254
412．shined,shone 254
413．shrank,shrunk,shrunken 255
414．sick,ill 255
415．skeptic,sceptic,septic 256
416．slack,slacken 256
417．sled,sledge,sleigh 257
418．slow,slowly 257
419．sociable,social 258
420．somebody,someone 259
421．something,somewhat 259
422．some time,sometime,sometimes 260
423．south,South,southern 261
424．speciality,specialty 262
425．specie,species 263
426．stamp,stomp 263
427．stanch,staunch 263
428．stationary,stationery 264
429．statistic,statistics 264
430．stimulant,stimulus 265
431．storey,story 265
432．stratagem,strategy 266
433．strata,stratum 266
434．successfully,successively 267
435．sufficient,enough,adequate 267
436．summon,summons 268
437．sure,surely 268
438．swelled,swollen 269
439．systematic,systemic 270
440．tasteful,tasty,tasteless 270
441．team,teem 271
442．technical,technological,techno- 271
443．tenant,tenet 272
444．terminal,terminus 272
445．terrible,terrific 273
446．textual,textural 274
447．thrash,thresh 274
448．tight,tightly 275
449．till,until 275
450．tortuous,torturous 276
451．track,tract 276
452．tragic,tragical 277
453．trasnsient,transitory 277
454．translucent,transparent,opaque 278
455．transverse,traverse 278
456．treble,triple 279
457．triumphal,triumphant 279
458．troop,troupe;trooper,trouper 280
459．try and,try to 281
460．unaware,unawares 281
461．underhanded,underhand 282
462．undue,unduly 283
463．unexceptionable,unexceptional 283
464．unqualified,disqualified 284
465．unsolvable,insolvable,insoluble 284
466．unthinkable,thoughtless,unthinking 285
467．unwanted,unwonted 286
468．upcoming,incoming,oncoming 286
469．urban,urbane 287
470．vacant,vacuous 287
471．vain,vane,vein 288
472．vale,veil 289
473．venal,venial 289
474．venom,poison;venomous,poisonous 290
475．verbal,oral 290
476．vertex,vortex 290
477．vicious,viscous 291
478．villain,villein 291
479．visible,visual 291
480．waive,wave 292
481．wander,wonder 292
482．wangle,wrangle 293
483．wastage,waste 293
484．weep,cry,sob 294
485．wet,wetted 294
486．whatever,what ever 295
487．while,whilst 296
488．whiskey,whisky 296
489．widow,widower 297
490．willful,wilful 297
491．wood,woods 298
492．worthwhile,worth while 298
493．wrong,wrongly 299
494．X-ray,x-ray 299
495．yolk,yoke 300
索引 301
主要参考书目 315
后记 316