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.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| usury | the lending of money with an interest charge for its use |
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| apotheosis | the perfect form or example of something : quintessence |
| improvise | to compose, recite, play, or sing extemporaneously |
| ruminate | to go over in the mind repeatedly and often casually or slowly |
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| lust | usually intense or unbridled sexual desire : lasciviousness |
| matrix | something within or from which something else originates, develops, or takes form |
| recant | to withdraw or repudiate (a statement or belief) formally and publicly : renounce |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |