Vocabulary Word
Word: discrepancy
Definition: lack of consistency or agreement as between facts; difference; Ex. discrepancy between two descriptions
Definition: lack of consistency or agreement as between facts; difference; Ex. discrepancy between two descriptions
Sentences Containing 'discrepancy'
But even when better informed they seem to have no apprehension of the full force of the discrepancy.
He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and his singular account of his father's dying words.
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