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 |
|---|---|
| quotidian | occurring every day |
| parlance | speech |
| dorsal | an ornamental cloth hung behind and above an altar |
| incommodious | not commodious : inconvenient |
| mulct | fine |
| effectual | producing or able to produce a desired effect |
| excerpt | a passage (as from a book or musical composition) selected, performed, or copied : extract |
| staccato | cut short or apart in performing : disconnected |
| belie | to give a false impression of |
| juggernaut | a massive inexorable force, campaign, movement, or object that crushes whatever is in its path |