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 |
|---|---|
| disproportion | lack of proportion, symmetry, or proper relation : disparity |
| importune | to press or urge with troublesome persistence |
| conflagration | fire |
| gangrene | local death of soft tissues due to loss of blood supply |
| dissension | disagreement |
| entomology | a branch of zoology that deals with insects |
| apoplexy | stroke |
| chapel | a subordinate or private place of worship: such as |
| battalion | a considerable body of troops organized to act together : army |
| 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 |