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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary
Disparity
If I replaced the word “disparity” in the below sentence with another word – “difference”, would the meaning of this sentence remain the same?
Of the intrinsic differences that separate American from English, the chief have their roots in the obvious disparity between the environment and traditions of the American people since the seventeenth century and those of the English. (Source: The American Language, by H. L. Mencken)
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Of the intrinsic differences that separate American from English, the chief have their roots in the obvious disparity between the environment and traditions of the American people since the seventeenth century and those of the English. (Source: The American Language, by H. L. Mencken)
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Disparity often has the sense of inequality or inconsistency , but in this context the meaning would remain the same if you replaced disparity with difference .
- Disparity often has the sense of inequality or inconsistency , but in this context the meaning would remain the same if you replaced disparity with difference .
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Disparity often has the sense of inequality or inconsistency, but in this context the meaning would remain the same if you replaced disparity with difference.
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