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 |
|---|---|
| hypercritical | meticulously or excessively critical |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| humus | a brown or black complex variable material resulting from partial decomposition of plant or animal matter and forming the organic (see organic |
| sextant | an instrument for measuring angular distances used especially in navigation to observe altitudes of celestial bodies (as in ascertaining latitude and longitude) |
| winnow | to remove (something, such as chaff) by a current of air |
| rotund | marked by roundness : rounded |
| antediluvian | of or relating to the period before the flood described in the Bible |
| commonplace | commonly found or seen : ordinary |
| descry | to catch sight of |
| apoplexy | stroke |