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 |
|---|---|
| corpus | the body of a human or animal especially when dead |
| rift | fissure |
| orifice | an opening (such as a vent, mouth, or hole) through which something may pass |
| snub | to check or stop with a cutting retort : rebuke |
| decimate | to select by lot and kill every tenth man of |
| guy | man |
| flinch | to withdraw or shrink from or as if from pain : wince |
| career | a profession for which one trains and which is undertaken as a permanent calling |
| extort | to obtain from a person by force, intimidation, or undue or illegal power : wring |
| pestle | a usually club-shaped implement for pounding or grinding substances in a mortar see mortar illustration |