GRE Word List
DISCREPANCY
the quality or state of disagreeing or being at variance
The meaning of the word discrepancy is the quality or state of disagreeing or being at variance.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |
| alimony | an allowance made to one spouse by the other for support pending or after legal separation or divorce |
| solicitor | one that solicits |
| malapropism | the usually unintentionally humorous misuse or distortion of a word or phrase |
| concession | the act or an instance of conceding (as by granting something as a right, accepting something as true, or acknowledging defeat) |
| promiscuous | having or involving many sexual partners : not restricted to one sexual partner or few sexual partners |
| rescind | to take away : remove |
| attrition | sorrow for one's sins that arises from a motive other than that of the love of God |
| occlude | to close up or block off : obstruct |
| chaperon | a person (such as a matron) who for propriety (see propriety |