centrifugal vs wry

centrifugal

adj
  • Tending, or causing, to recede from the center. 

  • Expanding first at the summit, and later at the base, as a flower cluster. 

  • Having the radicle turned toward the sides of the fruit, as some embryos. 

noun
  • A rotating machine used to separate massecuite into sugar crystals and molasses. 

wry

adj
  • Turned away, contorted (of the face or body). 

  • Deviating from the right direction; misdirected; out of place. 

  • Dryly humorous; sardonic or bitterly ironic. 

  • Twisted, bent, crooked. 

noun
  • Distortion. 

verb
  • To twist or contort (the body, face, etc.). 

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