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 |
|---|---|
| offensive | making attack : aggressive |
| pedestal | the support or foot of a late classic or neoclassical column see column illustration |
| precis | a concise summary of essential points, statements, or facts |
| plump | to drop, sink, or come in contact suddenly or heavily |
| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |
| herald | an official at a tournament of arms (see arm |
| optional | involving an option : not compulsory |
| indiscriminate | not marked by careful distinction : deficient in discrimination and discernment |
| seine | a large net with sinkers on one edge and floats on the other that hangs vertically in the water and is used to enclose and catch fish when its ends are pulled together or are drawn ashore |
| avuncular | suggestive of an uncle especially in kindliness or geniality |