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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| symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |
| distill | to let fall, exude, or precipitate (see precipitate |
| understate | to represent as less than is the case |
| cringe | to recoil in distaste |
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| esteem | the regard in which one is held |
| grim | fierce in disposition or action : savage |
| refute | to prove wrong by argument or evidence : show to be false or erroneous |
| bombast | pretentious inflated speech or writing |
| generic | relating to or characteristic of a whole group or class : general |