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 |
|---|---|
| homily | a usually short sermon |
| drone | a stingless male bee (as of the honeybee) that has the role of mating with the queen and does not gather nectar or pollen |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| compassion | sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it |
| blasphemy | the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence for God |
| capacious | containing or capable of containing a great deal |
| runic | any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries |
| grisly | inspiring horror or intense fear |
| vogue | popular acceptation or favor : popularity |
| riddle | a mystifying, misleading, or puzzling question posed as a problem to be solved or guessed : conundrum |