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 |
|---|---|
| shove | to push along |
| refectory | a dining hall (as in a monastery or college) |
| thrive | to grow vigorously : flourish |
| furrow | a trench in the earth made by a plow |
| adjunct | something joined or added to another thing but not essentially a part of it |
| expletive | a syllable, word, or phrase inserted to fill a vacancy (as in a sentence or a metrical line) without adding to the sense |
| divest | to deprive or dispossess especially of property, authority, or title |
| mutilate | to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect |
| gainsay | to declare to be untrue or invalid |
| prescience | foreknowledge of events: |