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 |
|---|---|
| precise | exactly or sharply defined or stated |
| rendezvous | a place appointed for assembling or meeting |
| pertinent | having a clear decisive relevance to the matter in hand |
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |
| simian | of, relating to, or resembling monkeys or apes |
| mimicry | an instance of mimicking |
| alloy | the degree of mixture with base metals : fineness |
| bemoan | to express deep grief or distress over |
| deflect | to turn (something) aside especially from a straight course or fixed direction |
| confiscate | appropriated by the government : forfeited |