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 |
|---|---|
| jingoist | extreme chauvinism or nationalism marked especially by a belligerent foreign policy |
| regicide | a person who kills a king |
| reminiscent | of the character of or relating to reminiscence |
| lunar | crescent |
| paradigm | example |
| plaintive | expressive of suffering or woe : melancholy |
| infantile | of or relating to infants or infancy |
| touchy | marked by readiness to take offense on slight provocation |
| squash | to press or beat into a pulp or a flat mass : crush |
| diversion | the act or an instance of diverting or straying from a course, activity, or use : deviation |