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 |
|---|---|
| salacious | arousing or appealing to sexual desire or imagination |
| menagerie | a place where animals are kept and trained especially for exhibition |
| indomitable | incapable of being subdued : unconquerable |
| leave-taking | departure |
| solicitous | manifesting or expressing solicitude |
| nomenclature | name |
| fathomless | incapable of being fathomed : immeasurable |
| mortician | undertaker |
| somnambulist | an abnormal condition of sleep in which motor acts (such as walking) are performed |
| scion | descendant |