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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| prude | a person who is excessively or priggishly attentive to propriety or decorum |
| roue | a man devoted to a life of sensual pleasure : rake |
| occult | to shut off from view or exposure : cover |
| lucid | suffused with light : luminous |
| latch | to lay hold with or as if with the hands or arms |
| interrogate | to question formally and systematically |
| acute | characterized by sharpness or severity of sudden onset |
| defiance | the act or an instance of defying : challenge |
| reproach | an expression of rebuke or disapproval |
| contumacious | stubbornly disobedient : rebellious |