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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WordMeaning
validhaving legal efficacy or force
shudderto tremble convulsively : shiver
depreciateto lower in honor or esteem
clandestinemarked by, held in, or conducted with secrecy : surreptitious
laymana person who is not a member of the clergy
vegetateto lead a passive existence without exertion of body or mind
chimericalexisting only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary
tridenta 3-pronged spear serving in classical mythology as the attribute of a sea god (such as Neptune)
partisana firm adherent to a party, faction, cause, or person
materialisma theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter