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 |
|---|---|
| sagacious | of keen and farsighted penetration and judgment : discerning |
| languish | to be or become feeble, weak, or enervated |
| blighted | affected with blight (see blight |
| phoenix | a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period |
| blare | to sound loud and strident |
| dowdy | not neat or becoming in appearance : shabby |
| censorious | marked by or given to censure (see censure |
| amble | to go at or as if at an easy gait : saunter |
| memento | something that serves to warn or remind |
| misapprehension | to apprehend wrongly : misunderstand |