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 |
|---|---|
| steadfast | firmly fixed in place : immovable |
| cower | to shrink away or crouch especially for shelter from something that menaces, domineers, or dismays |
| hurl | rush |
| herpetologist | a branch of zoology dealing with reptiles and amphibians |
| memorialize | to address or petition by a memorial |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| rationale | an explanation of controlling principles of opinion, belief, practice, or phenomena |
| contempt | the act of despising : the state of mind of one who despises : disdain |
| exude | to ooze out |
| waffle | a crisp cake of batter baked in a waffle iron |