Today’s “Word of the Day” is reconnaissance and it is a noun meaning “a preliminary survey to obtain information; surveillance, investigation, observation, examination, exploration, scrutiny, intelligence; (a reconnaissance aircraft is a military aircraft designed to perform aerial surveillance)”.
Example Sentence: Tonga is facing an “unprecedented disaster” from a massive volcanic eruption that covered the nation in ash and 15-metre tsunami waves that destroyed almost all the homes on two small islands, the government has said… Since then, information on the scale of the devastation had mostly come from reconnaissance aircraft.
This word is present in The Guardian article Tonga says volcanic eruption and tsunami an ‘unprecedented disaster’ and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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