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.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| coddle | to cook (something, such as eggs) in liquid slowly and gently just below the boiling point |
| vibrant | pulsating with life, vigor, or activity |
| blemish | to spoil by a flaw |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| tonsure | the Roman Catholic or Eastern rite of admission to the clerical state by the clipping or shaving of a portion of the head |
| malleable | capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer or by the pressure of rollers |
| pedant | one who is unimaginative or who unduly emphasizes minutiae in the presentation or use of knowledge |
| pulsate | to throb or move rhythmically : vibrate |
| psychic | of or relating to the psyche : psychogenic |
| manifest | readily perceived by the senses and especially by the sense of sight |