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 |
|---|---|
| transpire | to take place : go on |
| whiff | a quick puff or slight gust especially of air, odor, gas, smoke, or spray |
| dehydrate | to remove bound water or hydrogen and oxygen from (a chemical compound) in the proportion in which they form water |
| distant | separated in space : away |
| stem | the main trunk of a plant |
| preclude | to make impossible by necessary consequence : rule out in advance |
| codicil | a legal instrument made to modify an earlier will |
| pedantic | of, relating to, or being a pedant |
| prosperity | the condition of being successful or thriving |
| animadversion | a critical and usually censorious remark |