All 4 Uses

assess
in
All the Light We Cannot See
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To assess his hair color, the man snips a lock of hair from Werner's head and compares it to thirty or so other locks clipped to a board, arrayed darkest to lightest.
p. 114.1 *

assess = determine
In three months, Sergeant Major von Rumpel has traveled to Berlin and Stuttgart; he has assessed the value of a hundred confiscated rings, a dozen diamond bracelets, a Latvian cigarette case in which a lozenge of blue topaz twinkled; now, back in Paris, he has slept at the Grand Hotel for a week and sent forth his queries like birds.
p. 234.1 *

assessed = determined
Stare into the wires, concentrate, assess.
p. 325.9

assess = evaluate
A fifth man, the Gefreiter, will record the assessments.†
p. 340.6

Definitions:

(1) (assess as in: assess the situation)
to evaluate (consider something and make one or more judgements)
(2) (assess as in: assess the monetary value)
determine a numeric value of something -- such as a property's value or a truck's weight
(3) (assess as in: assess a fee or penalty)
charge a tax, fine, fee, or penalty
(4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)