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

WordMeaning
transpireto take place : go on
whiffa quick puff or slight gust especially of air, odor, gas, smoke, or spray
dehydrateto remove bound water or hydrogen and oxygen from (a chemical compound) in the proportion in which they form water
distantseparated in space : away
stemthe main trunk of a plant
precludeto make impossible by necessary consequence : rule out in advance
codicila legal instrument made to modify an earlier will
pedanticof, relating to, or being a pedant
prosperitythe condition of being successful or thriving
animadversiona critical and usually censorious remark