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 |
|---|---|
| maladroit | lacking adroitness : inept |
| spin | to draw out and twist fiber into yarn or thread |
| trident | a 3-pronged spear serving in classical mythology as the attribute of a sea god (such as Neptune) |
| lunatic | affected with a severely disordered state of mind : insane |
| legerdemain | sleight of hand |
| zest | a piece of the peel of a citrus fruit (such as an orange or lemon) used as flavoring |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| beset | to set or stud with or as if with ornaments |
| impudence | the quality or state of being impudent |
| nourish | nurture |