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May 9, 2012 This week's theme Miscellaneous words This week's words tenable casuistry discrepant consuetudinary unavailing Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg discrepant PRONUNCIATION: (di-SKREP-uhnt) MEANING: adjective: Marked by disagreement, incompatibility, or inconsistency. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin discrepare (to disagree), from dis- (apart) + crepare (to creak or rattle). Earliest documented use: 1524. USAGE: "Giselle can famously feel like a ballet of discrepant halves. Each of its acts demands an entirely different style." Judith Mackrell; Reviews: Dance; The Guardian (London, UK); Jul 19, 2010. Explore "discrepant" in the Visual Thesaurus. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. -Leo Tolstoy, novelist and philosopher (1828-1910)

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