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 |
|---|---|
| rummage | to make a thorough search or investigation |
| peccadillo | a slight offense |
| incredulous | unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true : not credulous : skeptical |
| platitude | the quality or state of being dull or insipid |
| prelude | an introductory performance, action, or event preceding and preparing for the principal or a more important matter |
| pandemonium | a wild uproar (as because of anger or excitement in a crowd of people) |
| emaciated | very thin and feeble especially from lack of nutrition or illness |
| resign | relegate |
| vain | having or showing undue or excessive pride in one's appearance or achievements : conceited |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |