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 |
|---|---|
| vagrant | one who has no established residence and wanders idly from place to place without lawful or visible means of support |
| residual | remainder |
| stipple | to engrave by means of dots and flicks |
| flippant | lacking proper respect or seriousness |
| substantive | having substance : involving matters of major or practical importance to all concerned |
| piecemeal | one piece at a time : gradually |
| promulgate | to make (an idea, belief, etc.) known to many people by open declaration : proclaim |
| usage | firmly established and generally accepted practice or procedure |
| diurnal | active chiefly in the daytime |
| distort | to twist (see twist |