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 |
|---|---|
| sophist | philosopher |
| verve | the spirit and enthusiasm animating artistic composition or performance : vivacity |
| hypercritical | meticulously or excessively critical |
| dismantle | to disconnect the pieces of |
| sullen | gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed |
| sequester | to set apart : segregate |
| auroral | dawn |
| carcinogenic | producing or tending to produce cancer |
| taunt | to reproach or challenge in a mocking or insulting manner : jeer at |
| institutionalize | to make into an institution : give character of an institution to |