GRE Word List
RATIONAL
having reason or understanding
The meaning of the word rational is having reason or understanding.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| retentive | having the power, property, or capacity of retaining |
| grotesque | a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature |
| unctuous | having, revealing, or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality |
| roil | to make turbid by stirring up the sediment or dregs of |
| meander | a winding path or course |
| chronicle | a historical account of events arranged in order of time usually without analysis or interpretation |
| caustic | capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action : corrosive |
| anecdote | a usually short narrative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical incident |
| taunt | to reproach or challenge in a mocking or insulting manner : jeer at |
| scrimmage | a minor battle : skirmish |