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 |
|---|---|
| ineffectual | not producing the proper or intended effect : futile |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| hydrophobia | rabies |
| figure | a number symbol : numeral |
| intervene | to occur, fall, or come between points of time or events |
| prophetic | of, relating to, or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy |
| ambush | to attack by surprise from a hidden place : waylay |
| bungle | to act or work clumsily and awkwardly |
| queue | a braid of hair usually worn hanging at the back of the head |
| fashion | the prevailing style (as in dress) during a particular time |