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 |
|---|---|
| rhapsodize | to speak or write in a rhapsodic manner |
| sportive | frolicsome |
| zenith | the point of the celestial sphere that is directly opposite the nadir and vertically above the observer see azimuth illustration |
| supposition | something that is supposed : hypothesis |
| insurmountable | incapable of being surmounted : insuperable |
| palimpsest | writing material (such as a parchment or tablet) used one or more times after earlier writing has been erased |
| earmark | a mark of identification on the ear of an animal |
| crave | to ask for earnestly : beg |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| snicker | to laugh in a covert or partly suppressed manner : titter |