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 |
|---|---|
| hackles | one of the long narrow feathers on the neck or saddle of a bird |
| humus | a brown or black complex variable material resulting from partial decomposition of plant or animal matter and forming the organic (see organic |
| trivia | unimportant matters : trivial facts or details |
| studied | carefully considered or prepared : thoughtful |
| bulge | to jut out : swell |
| pestilential | causing or tending to cause pestilence : deadly |
| upright | perpendicular |
| bromide | a binary compound of bromine with another element or a radical including some (such as potassium bromide) used as sedatives |
| papyrus | a tall perennial sedge (Cyperus papyrus) of the Nile valley |
| noncommittal | giving no clear indication of attitude or feeling |