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 |
|---|---|
| sobriety | the quality or state of being sober |
| protrude | to jut out from the surrounding surface or context |
| nonsense | words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas |
| curb | an edging (as of concrete) built along a street to form part of a gutter |
| ape | any of various large tailless semi-erect primates of Africa and southeastern Asia (such as the chimpanzee, gorilla, orangutan, or gibbon) |
| rapt | lifted up and carried away |
| multifarious | having or occurring in great variety : diverse |
| enact | to establish by legal and authoritative act |
| encipher | to convert (a message) into cipher |
| gaunt | excessively thin and angular |