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 |
|---|---|
| engender | beget |
| unassuaged | not quenched, eased, or satisfied : not assuaged |
| pass_off | present falsely; represent falsely to be |
| epicurean | of or relating to Epicurus or Epicureanism |
| gracious | marked by kindness and courtesy |
| meddlesome | given to meddling |
| quibble | to evade the point of an argument by caviling about words |
| gargoyle | a spout in the form of a grotesque human or animal figure projecting from a roof gutter to throw rainwater clear of a building |
| lurk | to lie in wait in a place of concealment especially for an evil purpose |
| foist | to introduce or insert surreptitiously or without warrant |