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 |
|---|---|
| discrepancy | the quality or state of disagreeing or being at variance |
| dissimulate | to hide under a false appearance |
| consistency | agreement or harmony of parts or features to one another or a whole : correspondence |
| grouse | any of various chiefly ground-dwelling birds (family Tetraonidae) that are usually of reddish-brown or other protective color and have feathered legs and that include many important game birds |
| concord | a state of agreement : harmony |
| erroneous | containing or characterized by error : mistaken |
| barrage | a dam placed in a watercourse to increase the depth of water or to divert it into a channel for navigation or irrigation |
| deride | to laugh at or insult contemptuously |
| timorous | of a timid disposition : fearful |
| panacea | a remedy for all ills or difficulties : cure-all |