GRE Word List
RATIONAL
having reason or understanding
The meaning of the word rational is having reason or understanding.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| heinous | hatefully or shockingly evil : abominable |
| well-bred | having or displaying the politeness and good manners associated especially with people of high social class |
| insolvent | unable to pay debts as they fall due in the usual course of business |
| brusque | markedly short and abrupt |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| depredation | to lay waste : plunder |
| gnarled | full of knots or gnarls : knotty |
| emetic | an agent that induces vomiting |
| epicure | one with sensitive and discriminating tastes especially in food or wine |
| dowse | to plunge into water |