ascent
— Noun
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～ an upward slope or grade (as in a road); "the car couldn't make it up the rise"
ascertain
— Verb
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～ be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something; "He verified that the valves were closed"; "See that the curtains are closed"; "control the quality of the product"
ascertain
— Verb
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～ learn or discover with certainty
ascertain
— Verb
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～ find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort; "I want to see whether she speaks French"; "See whether it works"; "find out if he speaks Russian"; "Check whether the train leaves on time"
ascertain
— Verb
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～ establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study; "find the product of two numbers"; "The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize"
ascertainable
— Adjective
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～ capable of being ascertained or found out; "ascertainable facts"
ascertained
— Adjective
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～ discovered or determined by scientific observation; "variation in the ascertained flux depends on a number of factors"; "the discovered behavior norms"; "discovered differences in achievement"; "no explanation for the observed phenomena"
ascesis
— Noun
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～ rigorous self-denial and active self-restraint
ascetic
— Adjective
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～ practicing great self-denial; "Be systematically ascetic...do...something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it"- William James; "a desert nomad's austere life"; "a spartan diet"; "a spartan existence"
ascetic
— Adjective
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～ pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline; "ascetic practices"
ascetic
— Noun
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～ someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline
ascetical
— Adjective
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～ practicing great self-denial; "Be systematically ascetic...do...something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it"- William James; "a desert nomad's austere life"; "a spartan diet"; "a spartan existence"
ascetical
— Adjective
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～ pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline; "ascetic practices"
ascetically
— Adverb
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～ in an ascetic manner; "she lived ascetically in a small house all by herself"
asceticism
— Noun
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～ the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures)
asceticism
— Noun
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～ rigorous self-denial and active self-restraint
asceticism
— Noun
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～ the doctrine that through renunciation of worldly pleasures it is possible to achieve a high spiritual or intellectual state
asch
— Noun
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～ United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957)