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 |
|---|---|
| listless | characterized by lack of interest, energy, or spirit |
| kudos | praise given for achievement |
| irresolute | uncertain how to act or proceed : vacillating |
| buccaneer | any of the freebooters preying on Spanish ships and settlements especially in 17th century West Indies |
| guileless | innocent |
| countenance | look |
| placid | serenely free of interruption or disturbance |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |
| substantiate | to give substance or form to : embody |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |