GRE Word List
RATIONAL
having reason or understanding
The meaning of the word rational is having reason or understanding.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| compute | to determine especially by mathematical means |
| extenuate | to lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of (something, such as a fault or offense) by making partial excuses : mitigate |
| antiquated | outmoded or discredited by reason of age : old and no longer useful, popular, or accepted |
| alimony | an allowance made to one spouse by the other for support pending or after legal separation or divorce |
| intermediary | mediator |
| polarity | the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles |
| skulk | to move in a stealthy or furtive manner |
| pillory | a device formerly used for publicly punishing offenders consisting of a wooden frame with holes in which the head and hands can be locked |
| torpor | a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility |
| extant | currently or actually existing |