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 |
|---|---|
| culvert | a transverse drain |
| transpire | to take place : go on |
| capillary | resembling a hair especially in slender elongated form |
| mollycoddle | to treat with an excessive or absurd degree of indulgence and attention |
| antler | one of the paired deciduous solid bony processes that arise from the frontal bone on the head of an animal of the deer family |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| negate | to deny the existence or truth of |
| alimentary | of or relating to nourishment or nutrition |
| contention | a point advanced or maintained in a debate or argument |
| appropriate | especially suitable or compatible : fitting |