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 |
|---|---|
| solicitor | one that solicits |
| execrate | to declare to be evil or detestable : denounce |
| odoriferous | yielding an odor : odorous |
| flourish | to grow luxuriantly : thrive |
| propinquity | nearness of blood : kinship |
| wizardry | the art or practices of a wizard : sorcery |
| autopsy | an examination of a body after death to determine the cause of death or the character and extent of changes produced by disease |
| tendentious | marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view : biased |
| torrent | a violent or forceful flow of fluid |
| emend | to correct usually by textual alterations |