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 |
|---|---|
| subsidiary | furnishing aid or support : auxiliary |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| discriminate | to mark or perceive the distinguishing or peculiar features of |
| moratorium | a legally authorized period of delay in the performance of a legal obligation or the payment of a debt |
| affable | being pleasant and at ease in talking to others |
| gusty | the sensation of taste |
| sherbet | a cold drink of sweetened and diluted fruit juice |
| persist | to go on resolutely or stubbornly in spite of opposition, importunity, or warning |
| torpor | a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility |
| facsimile | an exact copy |