GRE Word List
RATIONAL
having reason or understanding
The meaning of the word rational is having reason or understanding.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
| facilitate | to make easier : help bring about |
| valedictory | of or relating to a valediction : expressing or containing a farewell |
| representational | one that represents: such as |
| halting | marked by a lack of sureness or effectiveness |
| humus | a brown or black complex variable material resulting from partial decomposition of plant or animal matter and forming the organic (see organic |
| gouge | a chisel with a concavo-convex cross section |
| scintilla | spark |
| nadir | the point of the celestial sphere that is directly opposite the zenith and vertically downward from the observer |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |