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 |
|---|---|
| graduate | to receive an academic degree or diploma |
| germane | being at once relevant and appropriate : fitting |
| deride | to laugh at or insult contemptuously |
| shear | to cut off the hair from |
| virulent | marked by a rapid, severe, and destructive course |
| deplore | to feel or express grief for |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| broach | brooch |
| suffragist | one who advocates extension of suffrage especially to women |
| discriminate | to mark or perceive the distinguishing or peculiar features of |