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 |
|---|---|
| tardy | moving slowly : sluggish |
| hostage | a person held by one party in a conflict as a pledge pending the fulfillment of an agreement |
| plenitude | the quality or state of being full : completeness |
| legend | a story coming down from the past |
| wilt | loose freshness; droop |
| vestige | a trace, mark, or visible sign left by something (such as an ancient city or a condition or practice) vanished or lost |
| compute | to determine especially by mathematical means |
| arduous | hard to accomplish or achieve : difficult |
| devious | wandering |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |