GRE Word List
ASCERTAIN
to find out or learn with certainty
The meaning of the word ascertain is to find out or learn with certainty.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| saga | a prose narrative recorded in Iceland in the 12th and 13th centuries of historic or legendary figures and events of the heroic age of Norway and Iceland |
| missive | a written communication : letter |
| counterpart | one of two corresponding copies of a legal instrument : duplicate |
| vigilante | a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate) |
| retiring | reserved |
| recidivism | a tendency to relapse into a previous condition or mode of behavior |
| pinion | the terminal section of a bird's wing including the carpus, metacarpus, and phalanges |
| evocative | evoking or tending to evoke an especially emotional response |
| premise | a proposition antecedently supposed or proved as a basis of argument or inference |
| preternatural | existing outside of nature |
