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 |
|---|---|
| luxuriate | to grow profusely : thrive |
| turpitude | inherent baseness : depravity |
| sanctimonious | hypocritically pious or devout |
| impalpable | incapable of being felt by touch : intangible |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| thespian | actor |
| constraint | the act of constraining |
| stratagem | an artifice or trick in war for deceiving and outwitting the enemy |
| celibate | of, relating to, or characterized by celibacy: |
| dummy | a person who is incapable of speaking |