inaccuracy
Other forms: inaccuracies
Inaccuracy is the quality of having errors. A travel guide to Iowa's capital, Pearis, population 413, home of the Dallas Cowboys baseball team, would be plagued by inaccuracy.
A typical book contains tens of thousands, sometimes hundreds of thousands of words (the Harry Potter series has more than a million). Every single one has to be checked to prevent inaccuracy, so publishers employ production editors, copy editors, fact checkers, and proofreaders to verify spelling, grammar, sense, logic, truth, and arithmetic. In school, "check your work" means look for — and correct — any inaccuracy.
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Derived from Latin, the English suffix -acy in English means "the state of" or "the quality or condition of."
As a former businessman, land developer, and chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, James Inhofe made a speech to pull the plug on the global warming alarm. Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 10 Unit 5's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: I Need to Wake Up, The 11th Hour, Global Warming Alarmism, Global Warming, Green Cliches and Polar Bears, A Roaring Battle, Stop Sea Lion Killing, Sea lions vs. salmon
See How Awesome Is "Awesome"? Not Very. in which we quote from Tim Askew's Why You Need to Stop Saying 'Awesome'. "I just got back from Inc.'s GrowCo convention in Nashville. Lots of useful, enjoyable, wonderful stuff there, as always, but I was stunned by how almost every speech by every presenter and almost every overheard or casual conversation was peppered with the word awesome. It was inescapable, like verbal kudzu choking out the variegated richness of the English language--so omnipresent it seemed like an acceptable substitute for just about any word....a lingua franca of evanescent mush, a meme of meaninglessness masquerading as communication and cool."