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 |
|---|---|
| quorum | a select group |
| manifest | readily perceived by the senses and especially by the sense of sight |
| misogamy | a hatred of marriage |
| carrion | dead and putrefying flesh |
| cadence | the beat, time, or measure of rhythmical motion or activity |
| anchor | a device usually of metal attached to a ship or boat by a cable and cast overboard to hold it in a particular place by means of a fluke that digs into the bottom |
| humanitarian | a person promoting human welfare and social reform : philanthropist |
| assumption | a taking to or upon oneself |
| scorch | to burn a surface of so as to change its color and texture |
| egotism | excessive use of the first person singular personal pronoun |