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 |
|---|---|
| delusive | likely to delude |
| beneficiary | a person or thing that receives help or an advantage from something : one that benefits from something |
| impenetrable | incapable of being penetrated or pierced |
| bucolic | of or relating to shepherds or herdsmen : pastoral |
| synoptic | affording a general view of a whole |
| shard | a piece or fragment of a brittle substance |
| concentric | having a common center |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |
| matriarch | a woman who rules or dominates a family, group, or state |
| epitaph | an inscription on or at a tomb or a grave in memory of the one buried there |