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 |
|---|---|
| misconduct | mismanagement especially of governmental or military responsibilities |
| dynamo | generator |
| insolence | the quality or state of being insolent |
| frolicsome | full of gaiety : playful |
| forebears | ancestor |
| stoic | a member of a school of philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium about 300 b.c. |
| unravel | to disengage or separate the threads of : disentangle |
| cringe | to recoil in distaste |
| somatic | of, relating to, or affecting the body especially as distinguished from the germplasm |
| accost | to approach and speak to (someone) in an often challenging or aggressive way |