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 |
|---|---|
| exploit | deed |
| propinquity | nearness of blood : kinship |
| lottery | a drawing of lots in which prizes are distributed to the winners among persons buying a chance |
| circumvent | to manage to get around especially by ingenuity or stratagem |
| prefigure | to show, suggest, or announce by an antecedent type, image, or likeness |
| vivacious | lively in temper, conduct, or spirit : sprightly |
| extradition | the surrender of an alleged criminal usually under the provisions of a treaty or statute by one authority (such as a state) to another having jurisdiction to try the charge |
| pine | any of a genus (Pinus of the family Pinaceae, the pine family) of coniferous evergreen trees that have slender elongated needles and include some valuable timber trees and ornamentals |
| swindler | to obtain money or property by fraud or deceit |
| cavil | to raise trivial and frivolous objection |