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 |
|---|---|
| ratify | to approve and sanction formally : confirm |
| quirk | an abrupt twist or curve |
| oracular | resembling an oracle (as in solemnity of delivery) |
| rank | relative standing or position |
| defunct | no longer living, existing, or functioning |
| timidity | lacking in courage or self-confidence |
| cartographer | one that makes maps |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| splice | to unite (two ropes or two parts of a rope) by interweaving the strands |
| equipoise | a state of equilibrium |