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 |
|---|---|
| accelerate | to move faster : to gain speed |
| requisition | the act of formally requiring or calling upon someone to perform an action |
| confidant | one to whom secrets are entrusted |
| dishonor | lack or loss of honor or reputation |
| illusive | based on or producing illusion : illusory |
| perforate | to make a hole through |
| pyromaniac | a person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires : a person affected by pyromania |
| heinous | hatefully or shockingly evil : abominable |
| impassioned | filled with passion or zeal : showing great warmth or intensity of feeling |
| redress | to set right : remedy |