Plantinga AVID Vocabulary #1

Define: DISCREPANCY

• A perfect agreement between two or more things.
• A method of measuring consistency.
• Inconsistency between two or more things.

• Uncertainty about upcoming events or plans.

Define: PARADOX

• A statement that contradicts itself.

• A question that has no answer.
• A phrase that is universally accepted.
• A statement that is always true.

Define: TENUOUS

• Abundant and Plentiful

• Weak or Insubstantial

• Permanent and Unchanging

• Strong and Substantial

Define: EXACERBATE

• To improve a situation.
• To make a situation worse.
• To ignore a situation.
• To analyze a situation.

Define: INCREMENTAL

• Incremental refers to a sudden change.
• Incremental means occurring in small, gradual steps.
• Incremental means a large, immediate increase.
• Incremental is synonymous with static or unchanging.

Define: AMBIGUOUS

• Impossible to know or understand.

• Confusing and misleading; difficult to understand.
• Open to more than one interpretation.

• Easily defined; having a single interpretation.

Define: PROLIFERATE

• To spread slowly and steadily.
• To increase rapidly in numbers or to multiply.
• To remain constant without change.
• To decrease in numbers or to diminish.

Define: UNANIMITY

• Majority

  agreement

• Complete agreement

• Partial

  Agreement

• Singular

  Agreement

Define: PERPETUAL

• Temporary

  Short-Lived

• Continuing Indefinitely

• Occasionally Recurring.

• Limited

  Specifically

Define: IMMINENT

• Imminent refers to something that has already happened.
• Imminent means about to happen or impending.
• Imminent means a distant event.
• Imminent is a synonym for irrelevant.