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 |
|---|---|
| interregnum | the time during which a throne is vacant between two successive reigns or regimes |
| integrity | firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values : incorruptibility |
| anthology | a collection of selected literary pieces or passages or works of art or music |
| curmudgeon | a crusty, ill-tempered, and usually old man |
| stanza | a division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter and rhyme : strophe |
| compilation | the act or process of compiling |
| ostracize | to exile by ostracism |
| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |
| brindled | having obscure dark streaks or flecks on a usually gray or tawny ground |
| fiend | devil |