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 |
|---|---|
| legislature | a body of persons having the power to legislate |
| berserk | an ancient Scandinavian warrior frenzied in battle and held to be invulnerable |
| matriculate | to enroll as a member of a body and especially of a college or university |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| sift | to put through a sieve |
| nadir | the point of the celestial sphere that is directly opposite the zenith and vertically downward from the observer |
| uncanny | seeming to have a supernatural character or origin : eerie |
| stench | stink |
| enact | to establish by legal and authoritative act |
| belligerent | inclined to or exhibiting assertiveness, hostility, or combativeness |