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 |
|---|---|
| recrimination | a retaliatory accusation |
| mottled | marked with spots of different colors : having blotches of two or more colors |
| soothsayer | a person who predicts the future by magical, intuitive, or more rational means : prognosticator |
| lubricate | to make smooth or slippery |
| tantrum | a fit of bad temper |
| penology | a branch of criminology dealing with prison management and the treatment of offenders |
| asinine | extremely or utterly foolish or silly |
| touchy | marked by readiness to take offense on slight provocation |
| shoddy | a reclaimed wool from materials that are not felted that is of better quality and longer staple than mungo |
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |