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 |
|---|---|
| margin | the part of a page or sheet outside the main body of printed or written matter |
| detonation | the action or process of detonating |
| untenable | not able to be defended |
| hypnosis | a trancelike state that resembles sleep but is induced by a person whose suggestions are readily accepted by the subject |
| sift | to put through a sieve |
| inhibited | to prohibit from doing something |
| trenchant | keen |
| delve | excavate |
| lechery | inordinate (see inordinate |
| preternatural | existing outside of nature |