GRE Word List
CENTRIPETAL
proceeding or acting in a direction toward a center or axis
The meaning of the word centripetal is proceeding or acting in a direction toward a center or axis.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| depredation | to lay waste : plunder |
| nettle | any of a genus (Urtica of the family Urticaceae, the nettle family) of chiefly coarse herbs armed with stinging hairs |
| jingoist | extreme chauvinism or nationalism marked especially by a belligerent foreign policy |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| throttle | to compress the throat of : choke |
| penchant | a strong and continued inclination |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| repress | to check by or as if by pressure : curb |
| subversive | the act of subverting : the state of being subverted |
| outskirts | a part remote from the center : border |