GRE Word List
RATIONALE
an explanation of controlling principles of opinion, belief, practice, or phenomena
The meaning of the word rationale is an explanation of controlling principles of opinion, belief, practice, or phenomena.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| cumbersome | unwieldy because of heaviness and bulk |
| motto | a sentence, phrase, or word inscribed on something as appropriate to or indicative of its character or use |
| tonsure | the Roman Catholic or Eastern rite of admission to the clerical state by the clipping or shaving of a portion of the head |
| regale | to entertain sumptuously : feast with delicacies |
| patriarch | one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people |
| malingerer | to pretend or exaggerate incapacity or illness (as to avoid duty or work) |
| profligate | wildly extravagant |
| mountebank | a person who sells quack medicines from a platform |
| forge | a furnace or a shop with its furnace where metal is heated and wrought : smithy |
| humus | a brown or black complex variable material resulting from partial decomposition of plant or animal matter and forming the organic (see organic |