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 |
|---|---|
| sanctimonious | hypocritically pious or devout |
| immaculate | spotlessly clean |
| comprise | to be made up of |
| bourgeois | of, relating to, or characteristic of the social middle class |
| sundry | including many things of different kinds : miscellaneous |
| supersede | to cause to be set aside |
| peremptory | putting an end to or precluding a right of action, debate, or delay |
| captious | marked by an often ill-natured inclination to stress faults and raise objections |
| unprepossessing | not tending to create a favorable impression : not prepossessing |
| counterpart | one of two corresponding copies of a legal instrument : duplicate |