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 |
|---|---|
| titillate | to excite pleasurably : arouse by stimulation |
| efface | to eliminate or make indistinct by or as if by wearing away a surface |
| flaunt | to display or obtrude oneself to public notice |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| gape | to open the mouth wide |
| dismantle | to disconnect the pieces of |
| revoke | to annul by recalling or taking back : rescind |
| episodic | made up of separate especially loosely connected episodes |
| incidence | rate of occurrence or influence |
| periphery | the perimeter of a circle or other closed curve |