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 |
|---|---|
| gourmand | one who is excessively fond of eating and drinking |
| ward | the action or process of guarding |
| libidinous | having or marked by lustful desires : lascivious |
| adjoin | to add or attach by joining |
| exhume | disinter |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| catholic | roman catholic |
| tacit | expressed or carried on without words or speech |
| constituency | a body of citizens entitled to elect a representative (as to a legislative or executive position) |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |