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 |
|---|---|
| dowse | to plunge into water |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |
| waif | a stray person or animal |
| levy | the imposition or collection of an assessment |
| efficacy | the power to produce an effect |
| aquiline | curving like an eagle's beak |
| impolitic | not politic : unwise |
| burgeon | to send forth new growth (such as buds or branches) : sprout |
| avantgarde | group of artists whose work is based on the newest ideas and methods; CF. vanguard |
| hackneyed | lacking in freshness or originality |