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 |
|---|---|
| geniality | marked by or freely expressing sympathy or friendliness |
| expeditious | marked by or acting with prompt efficiency |
| bowdlerize | to expurgate (something, such as a book) by omitting or modifying parts considered vulgar |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| abstinence | the practice of abstaining from something : the practice of not doing or having something that is wanted or enjoyable |
| translucent | permitting the passage of light: |
| topography | the art or practice of graphic delineation in detail usually on maps or charts of natural and man-made features of a place or region especially in a way to show their relative positions and elevations |
| deride | to laugh at or insult contemptuously |
| taint | to contaminate morally : corrupt |
| hibernate | to pass the winter in a torpid or resting state |