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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patoisa dialect other than the standard or literary dialect
hygienea science of the establishment and maintenance of health
embodyto give a body to (a spirit) : incarnate
franchisethe right or license granted to an individual or group to market a company's goods or services in a particular territory
brinkedge
automatona mechanism that is relatively self-operating
intuitionthe power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference
turpitudeinherent baseness : depravity
routa state of wild confusion or disorderly retreat
parodya literary or musical work in which the style of an author or work is closely imitated for comic effect or in ridicule