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 |
|---|---|
| infamous | having a reputation of the worst kind : notoriously evil |
| bivouac | a usually temporary encampment under little or no shelter |
| tawdry | cheap and gaudy in appearance or quality |
| gobble | to swallow or eat greedily |
| illusion | a misleading image presented to the vision : optical illusion |
| acclivity | an ascending slope (as of a hill) |
| prognosis | the prospect of recovery as anticipated from the usual course of disease or peculiarities of the case |
| stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage |
| outlaw | a person excluded from the benefit or protection of the law |
| partiality | the quality or state of being partial : bias |