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 |
|---|---|
| defeatist | an attitude of accepting, expecting, or being resigned to defeat |
| slur | an insulting or disparaging remark or innuendo : aspersion |
| profusion | lavish expenditure : extravagance |
| slovenly | untidy especially in personal appearance |
| resound | to become filled with sound : reverberate |
| malevolent | having, showing, or arising from intense often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred |
| tensile | capable of tension : ductile |
| roil | to make turbid by stirring up the sediment or dregs of |
| rebuff | to reject or criticize sharply : snub |
| militia | a part of the organized armed forces of a country liable to call only in emergency |