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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| innuendo | an oblique allusion : hint |
| chameleon | any of a family (Chamaeleontidae) of chiefly arboreal (see arboreal |
| tint | a usually slight or pale coloration : hue |
| awful | extremely disagreeable or objectionable |
| straggle | to wander from the direct course or way : rove |
| fructify | to bear fruit |
| purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification |
| perpetrate | to bring about or carry out (something, such as a crime or deception) : commit |
| irrefutable | impossible to refute : incontrovertible |
| compendium | a brief summary of a larger work or of a field of knowledge : abstract |