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 |
|---|---|
| pilfer | steal |
| despise | to look down on with disrespect or aversion |
| sect | a dissenting or schismatic religious body |
| effrontery | shameless boldness : insolence |
| remote | separated by an interval or space greater than usual |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| ulterior | going beyond what is openly said or shown and especially what is proper |
| spin | to draw out and twist fiber into yarn or thread |
| overturn | to cause to turn over : upset |
| impropriety | an improper or indecorous act or remark |