GRE Word List
TRAJECTORY
the curve that a body (such as a planet or comet in its orbit or a rocket) describes in space
The meaning of the word trajectory is the curve that a body (such as a planet or comet in its orbit or a rocket) describes in space.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| monochrome | a painting, drawing, or photograph in a single hue |
| patois | a dialect other than the standard or literary dialect |
| admonish | to indicate duties or obligations to |
| probity | adherence to the highest principles and ideals : uprightness |
| awful | extremely disagreeable or objectionable |
| obelisk | an upright 4-sided usually monolithic pillar that gradually tapers as it rises and terminates in a pyramid |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |
| chaffing | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| anthropoid | any of a suborder (Anthropoidea) of higher primates (such as macaques and marmosets) |
| distract | to draw or direct (something, such as someone's attention) to a different object or in different directions at the same time |