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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ransack | to look through thoroughly in often a rough way |
cantata | a composition for one or more voices usually comprising solos, duets, recitatives, and choruses and sung to an instrumental accompaniment |
missile | capable of being thrown or projected to strike a distant object |
protege | one who is protected or trained or whose career is furthered by a person of experience, prominence, or influence |
vouchsafe | to grant or furnish often in a gracious or condescending manner |
jabber | to talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly |
trifle | something of little value, substance, or importance |
inflated | distended with air or gas |
timorous | of a timid disposition : fearful |
rue | to feel penitence, remorse, or regret for |