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 |
|---|---|
| travail | work especially of a painful or laborious nature : toil |
| querulous | habitually complaining |
| muted | being mute : silent |
| patriarch | one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people |
| thrive | to grow vigorously : flourish |
| blush | outward appearance : view |
| defect | an imperfection or abnormality that impairs quality, function, or utility : shortcoming |
| masquerade | a social gathering of persons wearing masks and often fantastic costumes |
| proviso | an article or clause (as in a contract) that introduces a condition |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |