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 |
|---|---|
| eccentric | deviating from conventional or accepted usage or conduct especially in odd or whimsical ways |
| toll | a tax or fee paid for some liberty or privilege (as of passing over a highway or bridge) |
| equivocate | to use equivocal language especially with intent to deceive |
| stalemate | a drawing position in chess in which a player is not in checkmate but has no legal move to play |
| predispose | to dispose in advance |
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
| besiege | to surround with armed forces |
| component | a constituent part : ingredient |
| soliloquy | the act of talking to oneself |
| sovereignty | supreme power especially over a body politic |