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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modean arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval
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beguilehoodwink
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