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 |
|---|---|
| modicum | a small portion : a limited quantity |
| satire | a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn |
| swarthy | of a dark color, complexion, or cast |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |
| prosperous | auspicious |
| appurtenances | accessory objects |
| 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 |
| blowhard | an arrogantly and pompously boastful or opinionated person : braggart |
| colander | a perforated utensil for washing or draining food |
| wax | a substance that is secreted by bees and is used by them for constructing the honeycomb, that is a dull yellow solid plastic when warm, and that is composed primarily of a mixture of esters, hydrocarbons, and fatty acids : beeswax |