GRE Word List
SURVEILLANCE
close watch kept over someone or something (as by a detective)
The meaning of the word surveillance is close watch kept over someone or something (as by a detective).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| alimony | an allowance made to one spouse by the other for support pending or after legal separation or divorce |
| nonentity | something that does not exist or exists only in the imagination |
| disjunction | a sharp cleavage : disunion |
| drip | to let fall in drops |
| matriarch | a woman who rules or dominates a family, group, or state |
| manifesto | a written statement declaring publicly the intentions, motives, or views of its issuer |
| hereafter | after this in sequence or in time |
| ascribe | to refer to a supposed cause, source, or author : to say or think that (something) is caused by, comes from, or is associated with a particular person or thing |
| countenance | look |
| philanderer | a man who has sexual relations with many women |