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 |
|---|---|
| sodden | dull or expressionless especially from continued indulgence in alcoholic beverages |
| impassable | incapable of being passed, traveled, crossed, or surmounted |
| nepotism | favoritism (as in appointment to a job) based on kinship |
| chaffing | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| plenitude | the quality or state of being full : completeness |
| cumulative | increasing by successive additions |
| bombastic | marked by or given to speech or writing that is given exaggerated importance by artificial or empty means : marked by or given to bombast : pompous |
| fallible | liable to be erroneous |
| relic | an object esteemed and venerated because of association with a saint or martyr |
| insuperable | incapable of being surmounted, overcome, passed over, or solved |