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 |
|---|---|
| limber | having a supple and resilient quality (as of mind or body) : agile |
| mangy | affected with or resulting from mange |
| synthetic | relating to or involving synthesis : not analytic |
| yokel | a naive or gullible inhabitant of a rural area or small town |
| sportive | frolicsome |
| formidable | causing fear, dread, or apprehension |
| exigency | that which is required in a particular situation |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| lubricate | to make smooth or slippery |
| auxiliary | offering or providing help |