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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pliable | supple enough to bend freely or repeatedly without breaking |
| resound | to become filled with sound : reverberate |
| precipitous | precipitate |
| ostracize | to exile by ostracism |
| enduring | lasting |
| prologue | the preface or introduction to a literary work |
| gallows | a frame usually of two upright posts and a transverse beam from which criminals are hanged |
| marsupial | any of an order (Marsupialia) of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums, and related animals that do not develop a true placenta and that usually have a pouch on the abdomen of the female which covers the teats and serves to carry the young |
| effigy | an image or representation especially of a person |
| beeline | a straight direct course |