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 |
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| jollity | the quality or state of being jolly : merriment |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| shoot | to eject or impel or cause to be ejected or impelled by a sudden release of tension (as of a bowstring or slingshot or by a flick of a finger) |
| scad | any of several carangid fishes (especially of the genus Decapterus) |
| inclement | lacking mildness: such as |
| credo | a guiding belief or principle : creed |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| conjecture | inference formed without proof or sufficient evidence |
| aureole | a radiant light around the head or body of a representation of a sacred personage |
| scrutinize | to examine closely and minutely |