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 |
|---|---|
| ample | generous or more than adequate in size, scope, or capacity |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| initiate | to cause or facilitate the beginning of : set going |
| fluency | the quality or state of being fluent |
| discompose | to destroy the composure of |
| probe | a slender medical instrument used especially for exploration (as of a wound or body cavity) |
| aerie | the nest of a bird on a cliff or a mountaintop |
| colander | a perforated utensil for washing or draining food |
| zany | very eccentric (see eccentric |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |