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 |
|---|---|
| passive | acted upon by an external agency |
| flourish | to grow luxuriantly : thrive |
| maraud | to roam about and raid in search of plunder |
| intervene | to occur, fall, or come between points of time or events |
| die | to pass from physical life : expire |
| imperative | not to be avoided or evaded : necessary |
| irksome | tending to irk : tedious |
| harry | to make a pillaging or destructive raid on : assault |
| minutiae | a minute or minor detail |
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |