GRE Word List
RECONNAISSANCE
a preliminary survey to gain information
The meaning of the word reconnaissance is a preliminary survey to gain information.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| propensity | an often intense natural inclination or preference |
| mendicant | beggar |
| confound | to throw (a person) into confusion or perplexity |
| miasma | a vaporous exhalation formerly believed to cause disease |
| marked | having an identifying mark |
| barrister | a counsel admitted to plead at the bar and undertake the public trial of causes in an English superior court compare solicitor |
| humus | a brown or black complex variable material resulting from partial decomposition of plant or animal matter and forming the organic (see organic |
| malicious | having or showing a desire to cause harm to someone : given to, marked by, or arising from malice |
| aphasia | loss or impairment of the power to use or comprehend words usually resulting from brain damage (as from a stroke, head injury, or infection) |
| derivation | the formation of a word from another word or base (as by the addition of a usually noninflectional affix) |