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 |
|---|---|
| topography | the art or practice of graphic delineation in detail usually on maps or charts of natural and man-made features of a place or region especially in a way to show their relative positions and elevations |
| temerity | unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition : rashness |
| leery | suspicious |
| sumptuous | extremely costly, rich, luxurious, or magnificent |
| extrovert | a person whose personality is characterized by extroversion : a typically gregarious and unreserved person who enjoys and seeks out social interaction |
| sullen | gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed |
| slapdash | haphazard |
| wiggle | to move to and fro with quick jerky or shaking motions : jiggle |
| hypocritical | characterized by behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel : characterized by hypocrisy |
| intuition | the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference |