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 |
|---|---|
| sycophant | a servile self-seeking flatterer |
| pudding | blood sausage |
| epigram | a concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought |
| foster | having, relating to, or being the relationship between a foster parent and the child who the foster parent cares for |
| temporal | of or relating to time as opposed to eternity |
| alienate | to cause to be estranged : to make unfriendly, hostile, or indifferent especially where attachment formerly existed |
| provident | frugal |
| crust | the hardened exterior or surface part of bread |
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| multiplicity | the quality or state of being multiple or various |