GRE Word List
RATIONAL
having reason or understanding
The meaning of the word rational is having reason or understanding.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| prognosis | the prospect of recovery as anticipated from the usual course of disease or peculiarities of the case |
| halfhearted | lacking heart, spirit, or interest |
| piscatorial | piscatory |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| expostulation | an act or an instance of expostulating |
| purge | to clear of guilt |
| pith | a usually continuous central strand of spongy tissue in the stems of most vascular plants that probably functions chiefly in storage |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |
| decipher | decode |
| testy | easily annoyed : irritable |