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 |
|---|---|
| facetious | joking or jesting often inappropriately : waggish |
| arrhythmic | lacking rhythm or regularity |
| bar | a straight piece (as of wood or metal) that is longer than it is wide and has any of various uses (as for a lever, support, barrier, or fastening) |
| graphite | a soft black lustrous form of carbon that conducts electricity and is used in lead pencils and electrolytic anodes, as a lubricant, and as a moderator in nuclear reactors |
| roue | a man devoted to a life of sensual pleasure : rake |
| urchin | hedgehog |
| bemoan | to express deep grief or distress over |
| correlation | the state or relation of being correlated |
| lank | not well filled out : slender |
| jollity | the quality or state of being jolly : merriment |