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 |
|---|---|
| perquisite | a privilege, gain, or profit incidental to regular salary or wages |
| flay | to strip off the skin or surface of : skin |
| specious | having a false look of truth or genuineness : sophistic |
| acquiesce | to accept, comply, or submit tacitly or passively |
| empirical | originating in or based on observation or experience |
| opulence | wealth |
| thermal | of, relating to, or caused by heat |
| contrivance | a thing contrived |
| gross | glaringly noticeable usually because of inexcusable badness or objectionableness |
| inchoate | being only partly in existence or operation : incipient |