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 |
|---|---|
| marrow | bone marrow |
| mischance | bad luck |
| threadbare | having the nap worn off so that the thread shows : shabby |
| pediatrician | a specialist in pediatrics |
| inadvertently | unintentional |
| reprobation | the act of reprobating : the state of being reprobated |
| balm | a balsamic (see balsamic |
| strew | to spread by scattering |
| unctuous | having, revealing, or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality |
| vigor | active bodily or mental strength or force |