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 |
|---|---|
| refute | to prove wrong by argument or evidence : show to be false or erroneous |
| puny | slight or inferior in power, size, or importance : weak |
| compendium | a brief summary of a larger work or of a field of knowledge : abstract |
| expound | to set forth : state |
| frolicsome | full of gaiety : playful |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| sentinel | sentry |
| sallow | any of several Old World broad-leaved willows (such as Salix caprea) including important sources of charcoal and tanbark |
| misogynist | a person who hates or discriminates against women : a misogynistic person |
| prefigure | to show, suggest, or announce by an antecedent type, image, or likeness |