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 |
|---|---|
| valid | having legal efficacy or force |
| shudder | to tremble convulsively : shiver |
| depreciate | to lower in honor or esteem |
| clandestine | marked by, held in, or conducted with secrecy : surreptitious |
| layman | a person who is not a member of the clergy |
| vegetate | to lead a passive existence without exertion of body or mind |
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |
| trident | a 3-pronged spear serving in classical mythology as the attribute of a sea god (such as Neptune) |
| partisan | a firm adherent to a party, faction, cause, or person |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |