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 |
|---|---|
| conducive | tending to promote or assist |
| fanfare | a short and lively sounding of trumpets |
| waive | to relinquish (something, such as a legal right) voluntarily |
| gross | glaringly noticeable usually because of inexcusable badness or objectionableness |
| ensconce | shelter |
| symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |
| raconteur | a person who excels in telling anecdotes |
| stealth | a cautious, unobtrusive, and secretive way of moving or proceeding intended to avoid detection |
| slick | having a smooth surface : slippery |
| touchstone | a fundamental or quintessential part or feature : basis |