Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Divergence or disagreement, as between facts or claims; difference.
- n. An instance of divergence or disagreement. See Synonyms at difference.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Difference; disagreement; variance or contrariety, especially of facts or sentiments.
Wiktionary
- n. An inconsistency between facts or sentiments.
- n. The state or quality of being discrepant.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions
- n. an event that departs from expectations
Etymologies
- From Latin discrepantia, from discrepans, from discrepō, from crepō. See also discrepant. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“To acquiesce in discrepancy is destructive of candor and of moral cleanliness.”
“The reason for the discrepancy is the Tigers 'average of just 2.9 points per opponent's trip into the red zone allowed, which is a figure is nearly impossible to maintain and is mostly just random variance.”
The Huffington Post: Jeff Ma: Bringing Down the Bookie: Week 7
“At 20 feet high, even going out to 40 yards, the discrepancy is about half a yard.”
“(I'm not sure if the discrepancy is a typographical error, but for the sake of my argument here, I'm assuming that he fell up to his elbow.)”
“But do you not think that governments have a part to play in what you call the discrepancy between perceptions and reality?”
“If you think this "discrepancy" is the death-knell of global warming theory, you really don't understand what's going on, "Bart".”
“One reason behind the discrepancy is Czechs 'deeper wallets.”
The Wall Street Journal: Grocers Test Concepts in Czech Republic
“The discrepancy translates into roughly six years of added life span.”
“If you e-file and have a name discrepancy you will get an immediate rejection," and thus be aware of the need to fix it, Perlman said.”
“The dropout rate — that is, the discrepancy between incoming freshmen and graduates — would have been 25.2 percent in the 2006-2007 school year.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘discrepancy’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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Words
phantasmagoria, eviscerate, avast, simulacrum, varicose, oblique, gestalt, ersatz, vernal, vivace, stellate, synecdoche and 330 more...
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GRE Barron's 800
abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abject, abjure, abscission, abscond, abstemious, abstinence, abysmal, accretion and 787 more...
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2nd part
prelude, ample, escalate, prototype, accession, acquisition, archives, zealot, indict, verdict, intimidating, timid and 454 more...
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GRE 2014
abase, abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abjure, abortive, abound, abrasive, abreast, abridge and 1577 more...
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GRE
predilection, explicit, appeal, supplication, appealing, enchanting, ovation, pertinent, apropos, opportunely, applicable, germane and 381 more...
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Words I Know
List of most of the words I've learned
garner, abase, abate, abdicate, abduct, aberration, abet, abhor, abide, abject, abjure, abnegation and 1046 more...
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Personal Vocabulary List
All my favourite words that I come across!
veritable, incongruence, rigamorole, letcherous, revolting, repulsive, reputrid, rapatious, forays, guise, placate, paradigm and 1162 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Words I like
There's nothing more to this list, really.
lily, defenestrate, gloaming, aesthetically, melody, translucent, semiotics, wistful, linear, origami, plethora, schadenfreude and 92 more...
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GRE
abate, abdicate, aberrant, abhor, abjure, abrasive, abridge, abstain, acme, activism, adhere, admonish and 195 more...
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Insurance Data-Related words
claimant, delete, register, invoice, spreadsheet, alert, electronic, cartridge, password, dashboard, certificate, presentation and 90 more...
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GRE
trope, surreptitious, tenet, insular, munificent, exegesis, limpid, acerbic, litany, cupidity, restive, protract and 260 more...
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amy's GRE 2012
gimmicks, kowtow, unpretentious, skeptical, cynical, somber, prevaricate, equivocate, requisite, embellish, impregnable, procrastinate and 307 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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SAT Words Appearing More Than Once on...
A list of 166 words that have appeared more than once on official SAT exams. Based on Gruber's SAT Word Master list.
abolish, abridge, abstemious, accent, accented, accolade, acquiesce, affirmation, amass, ambivalence, ambivalent, ambulatory and 154 more...
Tweets
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PossibleUnderscore No, I think that we've got a basic discrepancy here between the rule of law versus the rule of man.
-Roy Moore
Jul 30, 2009