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 |
|---|---|
| arrogance | an attitude of superiority manifested in an overbearing manner or in presumptuous claims or assumptions |
| benefit | something that produces good or helpful results or effects or that promotes well-being : advantage |
| horoscope | a diagram of the relative positions of planets and signs of the zodiac at a specific time (as at one's birth) for use by astrologers in inferring individual character and personality traits and in foretelling events of a person's life |
| odious | arousing or deserving hatred or repugnance : hateful |
| anachronism | an error in chronology |
| denotation | an act or process of denoting |
| intransigence | the quality or state of being intransigent |
| somatic | of, relating to, or affecting the body especially as distinguished from the germplasm |
| toxic | containing or being poisonous material especially when capable of causing death or serious debilitation |
| juridical | of or relating to the administration of justice or the office of a judge |