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 |
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| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| singular | of or relating to a separate person or thing : individual |
| glare | to shine with a harsh uncomfortably brilliant light |
| dissident | disagreeing especially with an established religious or political system, organization, or belief |
| plight | to put or give in pledge : engage |
| suffocate | to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation) |
| brink | edge |
| trim | to remove by or as if by cutting |
| askance | with disapproval or distrust : scornfully |
| 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 |