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 |
|---|---|
| galleon | a heavy square-rigged sailing ship of the 15th to early 18th centuries used for war or commerce especially by the Spanish |
| barrister | a counsel admitted to plead at the bar and undertake the public trial of causes in an English superior court compare solicitor |
| exacerbate | to make more violent, bitter, or severe |
| victuals | food usable by people |
| gusty | the sensation of taste |
| equilibrium | a state of intellectual or emotional balance : poise |
| anvil | a heavy usually steel-faced iron block on which metal is shaped (as by hand hammering) |
| kismet | fate |
| florescence | a state or period of flourishing |
| shunt | to turn off to one side : shift |