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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| adjacent | not distant : nearby |
| lag | one that lags or is last |
| pry | to look closely or inquisitively |
| flout | to treat with contemptuous disregard : scorn |
| hiatus | a break in or as if in a material object : gap |
| decelerate | to reduce the speed of : slow down |
| succor | relief |
| incipient | beginning to come into being or to become apparent |
| blighted | affected with blight (see blight |