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Trunks Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary

Understanding of the word "contradiction"

I didn't this meaning of contradiction: "a lack of agreement between facts, opinions, actions, etc.

Here are the examples related to the above meaning. Can u explain these with analogies:

1. There is a contradiction between the two sets of figures. (Like if the first set of figure computes at 10 million, the other set computes at 50 million. Is it sth like this?)

2. His public speeches are in direct contradiction to his personal lifestyle.

Can u also explain this with an analogy:

All evening her husband contradicted everything she said.
  

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1. There is a contradiction between the two sets of figures. (Like if the first set of figure computes at 10 million, the other set computes at 50 million.

  • 1.
  • There is a contradiction between the two sets of figures.
  • (Like if the first set of figure computes at 10 million, the other set computes at 50 million.
  • -- Yes ) 2.
  • -- What he says in his speeches is the opposite of what he does in his own life.
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1. There is a contradiction between the two sets of figures. (Like if the first set of figure computes at 10 million, the other set computes at 50 million. Is it sth like this?-- Yes)

2. His public speeches are in direct contradiction to his personal lifestyle.-- What he says in his speeches is the opposite of what he does in his own l

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