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 |
|---|---|
| abate | to decrease in force or intensity |
| grotesque | a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature |
| mincing | affectedly dainty or delicate |
| retrospective | of, relating to, or given to retrospection |
| wry | twist |
| burlesque | a literary or dramatic work that seeks to ridicule by means of grotesque exaggeration or comic imitation |
| flora | a treatise on or list of the plants of an area or period |
| kleptomaniac | a person evidencing kleptomania |
| inveigle | to win over by wiles : entice |
| elated | marked by high spirits : exultant |