GRE Word List
CENTRIFUGAL
proceeding or acting in a direction away from a center or axis
The meaning of the word centrifugal is proceeding or acting in a direction away from a center or axis.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |
| despise | to look down on with disrespect or aversion |
| spoof | deceive |
| exertion | the act or an instance of exerting |
| clandestine | marked by, held in, or conducted with secrecy : surreptitious |
| placebo | a usually pharmacologically inert preparation prescribed more for the mental relief of the patient than for its actual effect on a disorder |
| ferret | a domesticated usually albino, brownish, or silver-gray animal (Mustela putorius furo) that is descended from the European polecat |
| incrustation | a crust or hard coating |
| couple | two persons married, engaged, or otherwise romantically paired |
| juggernaut | a massive inexorable force, campaign, movement, or object that crushes whatever is in its path |