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 |
|---|---|
| adhere | to hold fast or stick by or as if by gluing, suction, grasping, or fusing |
| oust | to remove from or dispossess of property or position by legal action, by force, or by the compulsion of necessity |
| xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |
| trident | a 3-pronged spear serving in classical mythology as the attribute of a sea god (such as Neptune) |
| serendipity | the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for |
| obscure | dark |
| infantile | of or relating to infants or infancy |
| evanescent | tending to vanish like vapor |
| corpuscle | a minute particle |
| speechless | unable to speak : dumb |