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 |
|---|---|
| complementary | serving to fill out or complete |
| outskirts | a part remote from the center : border |
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |
| ingenue | a naive girl or young woman |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| healthful | beneficial to health of body or mind |
| elucidate | to make lucid especially by explanation or analysis |
| suffocate | to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation) |
| remorse | a gnawing distress arising from a sense of guilt for past wrongs : self-reproach |
| flux | a flowing of fluid from the body: such as |