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 |
|---|---|
| lethal | of, relating to, or causing death |
| philanderer | a man who has sexual relations with many women |
| finesse | refinement or delicacy of workmanship, structure, or texture |
| swagger | to conduct oneself in an arrogant or superciliously pompous manner |
| tryst | an agreement (as between lovers) to meet |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| intolerant | unable or unwilling to endure |
| prostrate | stretched out with face on the ground in adoration or submission |
| perspicuity | plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |