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 |
|---|---|
| anvil | a heavy usually steel-faced iron block on which metal is shaped (as by hand hammering) |
| connoisseur | expert |
| botch | an inflammatory sore |
| terrestrial | of or relating to the earth or its inhabitants |
| galvanize | to subject to the action of an electric current especially for the purpose of stimulating physiologically |
| discretion | individual choice or judgment |
| maleficent | working or productive of harm or evil : baleful |
| oblivion | the fact or condition of not remembering : a state marked by lack of awareness or consciousness |
| convention | agreement |
| frigid | intensely cold |