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 |
|---|---|
| exhume | disinter |
| apposite | highly pertinent or appropriate : apt |
| knell | a stroke or sound of a bell especially when rung slowly (as for a death, funeral, or disaster) |
| forestall | to exclude, hinder, or prevent (something) by prior occupation or measures |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| depredation | to lay waste : plunder |
| pen | to shut in or as if in a pen |
| pilfer | steal |
| prudent | characterized by, arising from, or showing prudence: such as |
| finite | having definite or definable limits |