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 |
|---|---|
| flick | a light sharp jerky stroke or movement |
| compunction | anxiety arising from awareness of guilt |
| skinflint | a person who would save, gain, or extort money by any means : miser |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| prosaic | characteristic of prose as distinguished from poetry : factual |
| provincial | the superior of a province of a Roman Catholic religious order |
| narcissist | an individual showing symptoms of or affected by narcissism: such as |
| beneficent | doing or producing good |
| lot | an object used as a counter in determining a question by chance see also throw in one's lot with |
| prohibitive | tending to prohibit or restrain |