GRE Word List
RECONNAISSANCE
a preliminary survey to gain information
The meaning of the word reconnaissance is a preliminary survey to gain information.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| suspend | to debar temporarily especially from a privilege, office, or function |
| bent | unenclosed grassland |
| dote | to exhibit mental decline of or like that of old age : be in one's dotage |
| lax | loose |
| fleck | streak |
| recurrent | running or turning back in a direction opposite to a former course |
| haggle | to cut roughly or clumsily : hack |
| euthanasia | the act or practice of killing or permitting the death of hopelessly sick or injured individuals (such as persons or domestic animals) in a relatively painless way for reasons of mercy |
| boor | peasant |
| callow | lacking adult sophistication : immature |