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.

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WordMeaning
sobrietythe quality or state of being sober
protrudeto jut out from the surrounding surface or context
nonsensewords or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas
curban edging (as of concrete) built along a street to form part of a gutter
apeany of various large tailless semi-erect primates of Africa and southeastern Asia (such as the chimpanzee, gorilla, orangutan, or gibbon)
raptlifted up and carried away
multifarioushaving or occurring in great variety : diverse
enactto establish by legal and authoritative act
encipherto convert (a message) into cipher
gauntexcessively thin and angular