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 |
|---|---|
| spare | not being used |
| die | to pass from physical life : expire |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| recital | a detailed account : enumeration |
| boorish | resembling or befitting a rude or insensitive person : resembling or befitting a boor |
| oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined |
| conviction | the act or process of finding a person guilty of a crime especially in a court of law |
| rile | to make agitated and angry : upset |
| fetish | an object (such as a small stone carving of an animal) believed to have magical power to protect or aid its owner |
| partial | of or relating to a part rather than the whole : not general or total |