Assess vs. Ascertain

Assessverb

(transitive) To determine, estimate or judge the value of; to evaluate

Assessverb

(transitive) To impose or charge, especially as punishment for an infraction.

Assessverb

(transitive) To calculate and demand (the tax money due) from a person or entity.

Assessverb

To value; to make a valuation or official estimate of for the purpose of taxation.

Assessverb

To apportion a sum to be paid by (a person, a community, or an estate), in the nature of a tax, fine, etc.; to impose a tax upon (a person, an estate, or an income) according to a rate or apportionment.

Assessverb

To determine and impose a tax or fine upon (a person, community, estate, or income); to tax; as, the club assessed each member twenty-five cents.

Assessverb

To fix or determine the rate or amount of.

Assessverb

place a value on; judge the worth of something;

Assessverb

charge (a person or a property) with a payment, such as a tax or a fine

Assessverb

set or determine the amount of (a payment such as a fine)

Assessverb

estimate the value of (property) for taxation;

Ascertainverb

To find out definitely; to discover or establish.

Ascertainverb

(obsolete) To make (someone) certain or confident about something; to inform.

Ascertainverb

(archaic) To establish, to prove.

Ascertainverb

(archaic) To ensure or effect.

Ascertainverb

To render (a person) certain; to cause to feel certain; to make confident; to assure; to apprise.

Ascertainverb

To make (a thing) certain to the mind; to free from obscurity, doubt, or change; to make sure of; to fix; to determine.

Ascertainverb

To find out or learn for a certainty, by trial, examination, or experiment; to get to know; as, to ascertain the weight of a commodity, or the purity of a metal.

Ascertainverb

after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study;

Ascertainverb

be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something;

Ascertainverb

find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort;

Ascertainverb

learn or discover with certainty