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 |
|---|---|
| repel | to drive back : repulse |
| reprehensible | worthy of or deserving reprehension : culpable |
| fervor | intensity of feeling or expression |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| nebula | any of numerous clouds of gas or dust in interstellar space |
| chaff | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| notoriety | the quality or state of being notorious |
| obscure | dark |
| rightful | just |
| whittle | a large knife |