In WordList, a stop list is used in order to filter out some words, usually high-frequency words, that you want excluded from your word-list. The idea of a match-list is to be able to compare all the words in your word list with another list in a plain text file and then do one of a variety of operations such as deleting the words which match, deleting those which don't, or just marking the ones in the list.
For both, you can define your own lists and save them in plain text files.
Settings are accessed via the WordList menu or by an Advanced Settings button in the Controller
See also: lemma lists, general explanation of stop-lists