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 |
|---|---|
| constraint | the act of constraining |
| sour | being, inducing, or marked by the one of the five basic taste sensations that is produced chiefly by acids and is characteristic of lemon juice |
| contusion | injury to tissue usually without laceration : bruise |
| retain | to keep in possession or use |
| indigent | suffering from extreme poverty : impoverished |
| entree | the act or manner of entering : entrance |
| commodious | comfortably or conveniently spacious : roomy |
| nomenclature | name |
| somber | so shaded as to be dark and gloomy |
| solecism | an ungrammatical combination of words in a sentence |