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 |
|---|---|
| affront | to insult especially to the face by behavior or language |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |
| laity | the people of a religious faith as distinguished from its clergy |
| genuflect | to bend the knee |
| fancied | imagined or believed to be true or real |
| predator | an organism that primarily obtains food by the killing and consuming of other organisms : an organism that lives by predation |
| hazy | made dim or cloudy by or as if by fine dust, smoke, or light vapor in the air : obscured by or as if by haze (see haze |
| sepulcher | a place of burial : tomb |
| subversive | the act of subverting : the state of being subverted |
| commemorative | intended as a commemoration |