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 |
|---|---|
| browse | to eat (tender shoots, twigs, leaves of trees and shrubs, etc.) : to consume as browse (see browse |
| supple | compliant often to the point of obsequiousness |
| torpor | a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility |
| consensus | general agreement : unanimity |
| levity | excessive or unseemly frivolity |
| edict | a proclamation having the force of law |
| adverse | acting against or in a contrary direction : hostile |
| masticate | to grind or crush (food) with or as if with the teeth : chew |
| ruthless | having no pity : merciless |
| tutelage | instruction especially of an individual |