GRE Word List
RATIONAL
having reason or understanding
The meaning of the word rational is having reason or understanding.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| interim | an intervening time : interval |
| refute | to prove wrong by argument or evidence : show to be false or erroneous |
| castrate | to deprive (a male animal or person) of the testes |
| decry | to depreciate (something, such as a coin) officially or publicly |
| aggrandize | to make great or greater : increase |
| libertine | a freethinker especially in religious matters |
| mulct | fine |
| bargain | an agreement between parties settling what each gives or receives in a transaction between them or what course of action or policy each pursues in respect to the other |
| transparent | having the property of transmitting light without appreciable scattering so that bodies lying beyond are seen clearly : pellucid |
| pillory | a device formerly used for publicly punishing offenders consisting of a wooden frame with holes in which the head and hands can be locked |