GRE Word List
RATIONAL
having reason or understanding
The meaning of the word rational is having reason or understanding.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| affected | artificial; pretended |
| browse | to eat (tender shoots, twigs, leaves of trees and shrubs, etc.) : to consume as browse (see browse |
| felicity | the quality or state of being happy |
| significant | having meaning |
| 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 |
| solecism | an ungrammatical combination of words in a sentence |
| buffoon | a ludicrous figure : clown |
| whittle | a large knife |
| canter | one who uses cant: such as |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |