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.

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WordMeaning
legislaturea body of persons having the power to legislate
berserkan ancient Scandinavian warrior frenzied in battle and held to be invulnerable
matriculateto enroll as a member of a body and especially of a college or university
embezzlementto appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use
siftto put through a sieve
nadirthe point of the celestial sphere that is directly opposite the zenith and vertically downward from the observer
uncannyseeming to have a supernatural character or origin : eerie
stenchstink
enactto establish by legal and authoritative act
belligerentinclined to or exhibiting assertiveness, hostility, or combativeness