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 |
|---|---|
| quagmire | soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot |
| repugnance | the quality or fact of being contradictory or inconsistent |
| importune | to press or urge with troublesome persistence |
| scheme | a plan or program of action |
| grueling | trying or taxing to the point of exhaustion : punishing |
| gainsay | to declare to be untrue or invalid |
| beguile | hoodwink |
| simplistic | excessively simple or simplified : treating a problem or subject with false simplicity by omitting or ignoring complicating factors or details |
| gist | essence; main point; substance |
| mortician | undertaker |