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 |
|---|---|
| animated | endowed with life or the qualities of life : alive |
| cede | to yield or grant typically by treaty |
| choice | the act of choosing : selection |
| warranty | a real covenant binding the grantor of an estate and the grantor's heirs to warrant and defend the title |
| chivalrous | valiant |
| unwonted | being out of the ordinary : rare |
| purport | to have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred) |
| hallucination | a sensory perception (such as a visual image or a sound) that occurs in the absence of an actual external stimulus and usually arises from neurological disturbance (such as that associated with delirium tremens, schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, or narcolepsy) or in response to drugs (such as LSD or phencyclidine) |
| premonitory | giving warning |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |