GRE Word List
RATIONALIZE
to bring into accord with reason or cause something to seem reasonable: such as
The meaning of the word rationalize is to bring into accord with reason or cause something to seem reasonable: such as.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| antiquity | ancient times |
| camaraderie | a spirit of friendly good-fellowship |
| prosperous | auspicious |
| permissive | granted on sufferance : tolerated |
| inamorata | a woman with whom one is in love or has intimate relations |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
| pillage | the act of looting or plundering especially in war |
| acrophobia | abnormal dread of being in a high place : fear of heights |
| sensitization | the action or process of sensitizing |
| credulity | readiness or willingness to believe especially on slight or uncertain evidence |