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 |
|---|---|
| sleigh | an open usually horse-drawn vehicle with runners for use on snow or ice |
| cadaver | a dead body |
| flora | a treatise on or list of the plants of an area or period |
| graphite | a soft black lustrous form of carbon that conducts electricity and is used in lead pencils and electrolytic anodes, as a lubricant, and as a moderator in nuclear reactors |
| tractable | capable of being easily led, taught, or controlled : docile |
| agility | the quality or state of being agile : nimbleness |
| seethe | to suffer violent internal excitement |
| jabber | to talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly |
| endorse | to write on the back of |
| phalanx | a body of heavily armed infantry in ancient Greece formed in close deep ranks and files |