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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| patois | a dialect other than the standard or literary dialect |
| hygiene | a science of the establishment and maintenance of health |
| embody | to give a body to (a spirit) : incarnate |
| franchise | the right or license granted to an individual or group to market a company's goods or services in a particular territory |
| brink | edge |
| automaton | a mechanism that is relatively self-operating |
| intuition | the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference |
| turpitude | inherent baseness : depravity |
| rout | a state of wild confusion or disorderly retreat |
| parody | a literary or musical work in which the style of an author or work is closely imitated for comic effect or in ridicule |