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 |
|---|---|
| urgent | calling for immediate attention : pressing |
| incursion | a hostile entrance into a territory : raid |
| transmute | to change or alter in form, appearance, or nature and especially to a higher form |
| mat | a piece of coarse, woven, plaited, or felted fabric used especially as a floor covering or a support |
| masticate | to grind or crush (food) with or as if with the teeth : chew |
| tawdry | cheap and gaudy in appearance or quality |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| trepidation | a nervous or fearful feeling of uncertain agitation : apprehension |
| assail | to attack violently : assault |
| dumbfound | to confound (see confound |