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 |
|---|---|
| defray | to provide for the payment of : pay |
| firebrand | a piece of burning wood |
| devious | wandering |
| ciliated | possessing cilia |
| quay | a structure built parallel to the bank of a waterway for use as a landing place |
| tantrum | a fit of bad temper |
| mutilate | to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect |
| epitome | a typical or ideal example : embodiment |
| pulse | the regular expansion of an artery caused by the ejection of blood into the arterial system by the contractions of the heart |
| hoard | a supply or fund stored up and often hidden away |