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 |
|---|---|
| minute | the 60th part of an hour of time : 60 seconds |
| liquidate | to determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness, damages, or accounts) |
| divest | to deprive or dispossess especially of property, authority, or title |
| invidious | of an unpleasant or objectionable nature : obnoxious |
| husband | a male partner in a marriage |
| oratorio | a lengthy choral work usually of a religious nature consisting chiefly of recitatives, arias, and choruses without action or scenery |
| jetsam | the part of a ship, its equipment, or its cargo that is cast overboard to lighten the load in time of distress and that sinks or is washed ashore |
| oatmeal | meal made from oats |
| anthropologist | the science of human beings |
| pestle | a usually club-shaped implement for pounding or grinding substances in a mortar see mortar illustration |