GRE Word List
RATIOCINATION
the process of exact thinking : reasoning
The meaning of the word ratiocination is the process of exact thinking : reasoning.
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| potent | having or wielding force, authority, or influence : powerful |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| nonentity | something that does not exist or exists only in the imagination |
| prosper | to succeed in an enterprise or activity |
| far-fetched | brought from a remote time or place |
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| peroration | the concluding part of a discourse and especially an oration |
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| sluggish | averse to activity or exertion : indolent |
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