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 |
|---|---|
| usurp | to seize and hold (office, place, functions, powers, etc.) in possession by force or without right |
| jaunty | sprightly in manner or appearance : lively |
| regale | to entertain sumptuously : feast with delicacies |
| pauper | a person destitute of means except such as are derived from charity |
| bluff | having a broad flattened front |
| plait | pleat |
| astronomical | of or relating to astronomy |
| caulk | to stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe) |
| facet | any of the definable aspects that make up a subject (as of contemplation) or an object (as of consideration) |
| trickster | one who tricks: such as |