GRE Word List
RATIONAL
having reason or understanding
The meaning of the word rational is having reason or understanding.
Random words
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| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| rendezvous | a place appointed for assembling or meeting |
| flux | a flowing of fluid from the body: such as |
| interjection | an ejaculatory utterance usually lacking grammatical connection: such as |
| phoenix | a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period |
| reticent | inclined to be silent or uncommunicative in speech : reserved |
| lectern | a stand used to support a book or script in a convenient position for a standing reader or speaker |
| legacy | a gift by will especially of money or other personal property : bequest |
| excise | an internal tax levied on the manufacture, sale, or consumption of a commodity |
| freebooter | pirate |