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 |
|---|---|
| harry | to make a pillaging or destructive raid on : assault |
| concede | to acknowledge grudgingly or hesitantly |
| tact | a keen sense of what to do or say in order to maintain good relations with others or avoid offense |
| philistine | a native or inhabitant of ancient Philistia |
| nib | bill |
| genuflect | to bend the knee |
| impasse | a predicament affording no obvious escape |
| dapper | neat and trim in appearance |
| avarice | excessive or insatiable desire for wealth or gain : greediness |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |