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 |
|---|---|
| quay | a structure built parallel to the bank of a waterway for use as a landing place |
| stump | the basal portion of a bodily part remaining after the rest is removed |
| debilitate | to impair the strength of : enfeeble |
| pomposity | pompous demeanor, speech, or behavior |
| intuition | the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference |
| fiend | devil |
| troth | loyal or pledged faithfulness : fidelity |
| concurrent | operating or occurring at the same time |
| linguistic | of or relating to language or linguistics |
| verbiage | a profusion of words usually of little or obscure content |