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 |
|---|---|
| uproarious | marked by uproar |
| shrewd | marked by clever discerning awareness and hardheaded acumen |
| decorous | marked by propriety and good taste : correct |
| inflated | distended with air or gas |
| windfall | something (such as a tree or fruit) blown down by the wind |
| stupor | a condition of greatly dulled or completely suspended sense or sensibility |
| poise | balance |
| slink | to go or move stealthily or furtively (as in fear or shame) : steal |
| exiguous | excessively scanty : inadequate |
| homage | a feudal ceremony by which a man acknowledges himself the vassal of a lord |