GRE Word List
EXTRAPOLATION
to predict by projecting past experience or known data
The meaning of the word extrapolation is to predict by projecting past experience or known data.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| prepossessing | creating prejudice |
| mannered | having manners of a specified kind |
| galleon | a heavy square-rigged sailing ship of the 15th to early 18th centuries used for war or commerce especially by the Spanish |
| somber | so shaded as to be dark and gloomy |
| torpedo | a weapon for destroying ships by rupturing their hulls below the waterline: such as |
| prodigal | characterized by profuse or wasteful expenditure : lavish |
| halting | marked by a lack of sureness or effectiveness |
| saboteur | one that practices sabotage |
| gorge | a narrow passage through land |
| mash | to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure |