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 |
|---|---|
| frenzied | feeling or showing great or abnormal excitement or emotional disturbance |
| hirsute | hairy |
| clavicle | a bone of the shoulder girdle typically serving to link the scapula and sternum |
| unwitting | not knowing : unaware |
| insolvent | unable to pay debts as they fall due in the usual course of business |
| futile | serving no useful purpose : completely ineffective |
| argot | the language used by a particular type or group of people : an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group |
| propitious | favorably disposed : benevolent |
| disbar | to expel from the bar or the legal profession : deprive (an attorney) of legal status and privileges |
| tenacious | not easily pulled apart : cohesive |