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 |
|---|---|
| emboss | to raise the surface of into bosses |
| astute | having or showing shrewdness and an ability to notice and understand things clearly : mentally sharp or clever |
| abhor | to regard with extreme repugnance : to feel hatred or loathing for : loathe |
| innuendo | an oblique allusion : hint |
| insuperable | incapable of being surmounted, overcome, passed over, or solved |
| dogmatic | characterized by or given to the expression of opinions very strongly or positively as if they were facts |
| deluge | an overflowing of the land by water |
| wring | to squeeze or twist especially so as to make dry or to extract moisture or liquid |
| secular | of or relating to the worldly or temporal |
| alms | something (such as money or food) given freely to relieve the poor |