GRE “D”

Question 1

Disparate

Answer 1

If two things are fundamentally different, they are disparate. For instance, verbal skills and math skills are disparate, and as such are usually tested separately—the GRE being no exception.

fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind

disparate ideas
Dissimilar

this (is) separate

🔹 The committee is made up of people from disparate backgrounds — artists, engineers, and farmers.
🔹 The two theories are so disparate that they can’t be tested using the same method.

With the advent of machines capable of looking inside the brain, fields as disparate as religion and biology have been brought together, as scientists try to understand what happens in the brain when people have a religious experience.