GRE Word List
DISCREPANCY
lack of consistency or agreement as between facts; difference; Ex. discrepancy between two descriptions
The meaning of the word discrepancy is lack of consistency or agreement as between facts; difference; Ex. discrepancy between two descriptions.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pine | long for; yearn; languish from longing or grief; decline |
| wizardry | sorcery; magic |
| insatiable | not easily satisfied; unquenchable; Ex. insatiable appetite |
| yore | time long past; Ex. in the days of yore |
| extrude | force or push out; thrust out; shape (plastic or metal) by forcing through a die |
| occident | the West |
| uncouth | boorish; clumsy in speech or behavior; outlandish |
| conjure | cause to appear by magic; summon (a devil or a spirit) by magical power; practice magic (esp. by very quick movement of the hands); evoke; conjure up: bring into the mind; Ex. The magician conjured a rabbit out of his hat. |
| scrappy | quarrelsome |
| incubate | hatch; warm (eggs) with the body to promote hatching; maintain at optimal environment conditions for development; be holding in one's body an infection which is going to develop into a disease; N. incubation; CF. incubation:disease |
