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 |
|---|---|
| boon | a timely benefit : blessing |
| disapprobation | the act or state of disapproving : the state of being disapproved : condemnation |
| menace | a show of intention to inflict harm : threat |
| wary | marked by keen caution, cunning, and watchfulness especially in detecting and escaping danger |
| rational | having reason or understanding |
| reprisal | a retaliatory act |
| nominal | of, relating to, or being a noun or a word or expression taking a noun construction |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| grandiose | characterized by affectation of grandeur or splendor or by absurd exaggeration |
| supercilious | coolly and patronizingly haughty |