The list may seem very long, but it's likely that you already know how to spell some of these words. If you try to learn the spelling of 10 words per day, you'll greatly improve the likelihood of doing well on the writing part of the GED.

SPELLING LIST

(alphabetical)



A

alot, ability, absence, absent, abundance, accept, acceptable, accident, accommodate, accompanied, accomplish, accumulation, accuse, accustomed, ache, achieve, achievement, acknowledge, acquaintance, acquainted, acquire, across, address, addressed, adequate, advantage, advantageous, advertise, advertisement, advice, advisable, advise, advisor, aerial, affect, affectionate, again, against, aggravate, aggressive, agree, aisle, alright, almost, already, although, altogether, always, amateur, American, among, amount, analysis, analyze, angel, angle, annual, another, answer, antiseptic, anxious, apologize, apparatus, apparent, appear, appearance, appetite, application, apply, appreciate, appreciation, approach, appropriate, approval, approve, approximate, argue, arguing, argument, arouse, arrange, arrangement, article, artificial, ascend, assistance, assistant, associate, association, attempt, attendance, attention, audience, August, author, automobile, autumn, auxiliary, available, avenue, awful, awkward


B
bachelor, balance, balloon, bargain, basic, beautiful, because, become, before, beginning, being, believe, benefit, benefited, between, bicycle, board, bored, borrow, bottle, bottom, boundary, brake, breadth, breath, breathe, brilliant, building, bulletin, bureau, burial, buried, bury, bushes, business



C
cafeteria, calculator, calendar, campaign, capital, capitol, captain, career, careful, careless, carriage, carrying, category, ceiling, cemetery, cereal, certain, changeable, characteristic, charity, chief, choose, chose, cigarette, circumstance, citizen, clothes, clothing, coarse, coffee, collect, college, column, comedy, comfortable, commitment, committed, committee, communicate, company, comparative, compel, competent, competition, compliment, conceal, conceit, conceivable, conceive, concentration, conception, condition, conference, confident, congratulate, conquer, conscience, conscientious, conscious, consequence, consequently, considerable, consistency, consistent, continual, continuous, controlled, controversy, convenience, convenient, conversation, corporal, corroborate, council, counsel, counselor, courage, courageous, course, courteous, courtesy, criticism, criticize, crystal, curiosity, cylinder



D
daily, daughter, daybreak, death, deceive, December, deception, decide, decision, decisive, deed, definite, delicious, dependent, deposit, derelict, descend, descent, describe, description, desert, desirable, despair, desperate, dessert, destruction, determine, develop, development, device, dictator, died, difference, different, dilemma, dinner, direction, disappear, disappoint, disappointment, disapproval, disapprove, disastrous, discipline, discover, discriminate, disease, dissatisfied, dissection, dissipate, distance, distinction, division, doctor, dollar, doubt, dozen



E
earnest, easy, ecstasy, ecstatic, education, effect, efficiency, efficient, eight, either, eligibility, eligible, eliminate, embarrass, embarrassment, emergency, emphasis, emphasize, enclosure, encouraging, endeavor, engineer, English, enormous, enough, entrance, envelope, environment, equipment, equipped, especially, essential, evening, evident, exaggerate, exaggeration, examine, exceed, excellent, except, exceptional, exercise, exhausted, exhaustion, exhilaration, existence, exorbitant, expense, experience, experiment, explanation, extreme



F
facility, factory, familiar, fascinate, fascinating, fatigue, February, financial, financier, flourish, forcibly, forehead, foreign, formal, former, fortunate, fourteen, fourth, frequent, friend, frightening, fundamental, further

G
gallon, garden, gardener, general, genius, government, governor, grammar, grateful, great, grievance, grievous, grocery, guarantee, guess, guidance

H
half, hammer, handkerchief, happiness, healthy, heard, heavy, height, heroes, heroine, hideous, himself, hoarse, holiday, hopeless, hospital, humorous, hurried, hurrying

I
ignorance, imaginary, imbecile, imitation, immediately, immigrant, incidental, increase, independence, independent, indispensable, inevitable, influence, influential, initiate, innocence, inoculate, inquiry, insistent, instead, instinct, integrity, intellectual, intelligence, intercede, interest, interfere, interference, interpreted, interrupt, invitation, irrelevant, irresistible, irritable, island, its, it's, itself

J
January, jealous, journal, judgment

K
kindergarten, kitchen, knew, knock, know, knowledge

L
labor, laboratory, laid, language, later, latter, laugh, leisure, length, lesson, library, license, light, lightning, likelihood, likely, literal, literature, livelihood, loaf, loneliness, loose, lose, losing, loyal, loyalty

M
magazine, maintenance, maneuver, marriage, married, marry, match, material, mathematics, measure, medicine, million, miniature, minimum, miracle, miscellaneous, mischief, mischievous, misspelled, mistake, momentous, monkey, monotonous, moral, morale, mortgage, mountain, mournful, muscle, mysterious, mystery


N
narrative, natural, necessary, needle, negligence, neighbor, neither, newspaper, newsstand, niece, noticeable


O
o'clock, obedient, obstacle, occasion, occasional, occur, occurred, occurrence, ocean, offer, often, omission, omit, once, operate, opinion, opportune, opportunity, optimist, optimistic, origin, original, oscillate, ought, ounce, overcoat


P
paid, pamphlet, panicky, parallel, parallelism, particular, partner, pastime, patience, peace, peaceable, pear, peculiar, pencil, people, perceive, perception, perfect, perform, performance, perhaps, period, permanence, permanent, perpendicular, perseverance, persevere, persistent, personal, personality, personnel, persuade, persuasion, pertain, picture, piece, plain, playwright, pleasant, please, pleasure, pocket, poison, policeman, political, population, portrayal, positive, possess, possession, possessive, possible, post office, potatoes, practical, prairie, precede, preceding, precise, predictable, prefer, preference, preferential, preferred, prejudice, preparation, prepare, prescription, presence, president, prevalent, primitive, principal, principle, privilege, probably, procedure, proceed, produce, professional, professor, profitable, prominent, promise, pronounce, pronunciation, propeller, prophet, prospect, psychology, pursue, pursuit

Q
quality, quantity, quarreling, quart, quarter, quiet, quite

R
raise, realistic, realize, reason, rebellion, recede, receipt, receive, recipe, recognize, recommend, recuperate, referred, rehearsal, reign, relevant, relieve, remedy, renovate, repeat, repetition, representative, requirements, resemblance, resistance, resource, respectability, responsibility, restaurant, rhythm, rhythmical, ridiculous, right, role, roll, roommate

S
sandwich, Saturday, scarcely, scene, schedule, science, scientific, scissors, season, secretary, seize, seminar, sense, separate, service, several, severely, shepherd, sheriff, shining, shoulder, shriek, siege, sight, signal, significance, significant, similar, similarity, sincerely, site, soldier, solemn, sophomore, soul, source, souvenir, special, specified, specimen, speech, stationary, stationery, statue, stockings, stomach, straight, strength, strenuous, stretch, striking, studying, substantial, succeed, successful, sudden, superintendent, suppress, surely, surprise, suspense, sweat, sweet, syllable, symmetrical, sympathy, synonym

T
technical, telegram, telephone, temperament, temperature, tenant, tendency, tenement, therefore, thorough, through, title, together, tomorrow, tongue, toward, tragedy, transferred, treasury, tremendous, tries, truly, twelfth, twelve, tyranny



U
undoubtedly, United States, university, unnecessary, usual, useful, usual

V
vacuum, valley, valuable, variety, vegetable, vein, vengeance, versatile, vicinity, vicious, view, village, villain, visitor, voice, volume

W
waist, weak, wear, weather, Wednesday, week, weigh, weird, whether, which, while, whole, wholly, whose, wretched