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
browseto eat (tender shoots, twigs, leaves of trees and shrubs, etc.) : to consume as browse (see browse
supplecompliant often to the point of obsequiousness
torpora state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility
consensusgeneral agreement : unanimity
levityexcessive or unseemly frivolity
edicta proclamation having the force of law
adverseacting against or in a contrary direction : hostile
masticateto grind or crush (food) with or as if with the teeth : chew
ruthlesshaving no pity : merciless
tutelageinstruction especially of an individual