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 |
|---|---|
| gawk | a clumsy stupid person : lout |
| discord | lack of agreement or harmony (as between persons, things, or ideas) |
| livid | discolored by bruising : black-and-blue |
| larder | a place where food is stored : pantry |
| ascendancy | governing or controlling influence : domination |
| dull | tedious |
| flout | to treat with contemptuous disregard : scorn |
| career | a profession for which one trains and which is undertaken as a permanent calling |
| acquiesce | to accept, comply, or submit tacitly or passively |
| reciprocate | to give and take mutually |