📚️ Definition of DISCREPANCY
Discrepancy (noun): a lack of agreement between things that are expected to match: a discrepancy in bank account records.
🗣️ Pronunciation of DISCREPANCY
IPA: dɪsˈkɹɛ.pən.si (See IPA key)
Phonetic: dih-SKREP-un-see
💪 Last-5 quiz
Do you remember the last five words we learned? Answer key at the bottom of this email.
1. COVERT most nearly means
(A) clandestine
(B) overt
(C) tacit
(D) cryptic
2. INTRINSIC most nearly means
(A) extrinsic
(B) incidental
(C) inherent
(D) acquired
3. FEASIBLE most nearly means
(A) impracticable
(B) practicable
(C) speculative
(D) arduous
4. ANALOGOUS most nearly means
(A) arbitrary
(B) comparable
(C) incongruous
(D) identical
📰 Examples of DISCREPANCY
Mrs. Lee found a discrepancy between the restaurant receipt for $72 and the charge on her credit card statement for $82.
I just got an email from UCLA saying there’s a discrepancy on my application and the transcript they received from my school. I’m afraid that might mess up my chances of getting in.
In 2002, internal auditor Cynthia Cooper and her team discovered discrepancies in WorldCom’s accounting books that led them to uncover $3.8 billion in improperly recorded expenses.
📝 Quote using DISCREPANCY
That he has adhered strictly to the truth, the editor, at least, who has had an opportunity of detecting any contradiction or discrepancy in his statements, is well satisfied. — Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave (1853)
Note from Erin: The above sentence may be a little bit hard to parse, but it’s important practice for the SAT. Notice that the subject of the sentence is a noun clause, which, in my 25+ years of experience teaching SAT prep, will always trip up a good number of students.
🗣️ How to use DISCREPANCY
discrepancy between, discrepancy in, apparent discrepancy, significant discrepancy, explain the discrepancy, account for the discrepancy
Last-5 quiz answers: 1) A — covert 2) C — intrinsic 3) B — feasible 4) B — analogous
See you tomorrow! We’re going to learn a word that could describe the stunned reaction to news that blew you away.