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 |
|---|---|
| philanthropist | one who makes an active effort to promote human welfare : a person who practices philanthropy |
| remonstrate | to present and urge reasons in opposition : expostulate |
| indenture | a document or a section of a document that is indented |
| acquiesce | to accept, comply, or submit tacitly or passively |
| charisma | a personal magic of leadership arousing special popular loyalty or enthusiasm for a public figure (such as a political leader) |
| yield | to bear or bring forth as a natural product especially as a result of cultivation |
| prohibitive | tending to prohibit or restrain |
| latitude | angular distance from some specified circle or plane of reference: such as |
| quintessence | the fifth and highest element in ancient and medieval philosophy that permeates all nature and is the substance composing the celestial bodies |
| earthly | characteristic of or belonging to this earth |