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 |
|---|---|
| overwrought | extremely excited : agitated |
| hiatus | a break in or as if in a material object : gap |
| contrived | having an unnatural or false appearance or quality : artificial |
| stalemate | a drawing position in chess in which a player is not in checkmate but has no legal move to play |
| intractable | not easily governed, managed, or directed |
| allude | to make indirect reference |
| behoove | to be necessary, proper, or advantageous for |
| coeval | of the same or equal age, antiquity, or duration |
| grapple | the act or an instance of grappling |
| nepotism | favoritism (as in appointment to a job) based on kinship |