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 |
|---|---|
| plethora | an ample amount or number : abundance |
| converse | to exchange thoughts and opinions in speech : talk |
| ineffable | incapable of being expressed in words : indescribable |
| eugenic | relating to or fitted for the production of good offspring |
| verity | the quality or state of being true or real |
| gambol | to skip about in play : frisk |
| phoenix | a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period |
| beseech | to beg for urgently or anxiously |
| context | the parts of a discourse that surround a word or passage and can throw light on its meaning |
| deluge | an overflowing of the land by water |