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 |
|---|---|
| boor | peasant |
| urgent | calling for immediate attention : pressing |
| propound | to offer for discussion or consideration |
| satyr | a sylvan deity in Greek mythology having certain characteristics of a horse or goat and fond of Dionysian revelry |
| render | to melt down |
| haggle | to cut roughly or clumsily : hack |
| scintilla | spark |
| charm | the chanting or reciting of a magic spell : incantation |
| disquisition | a formal inquiry into or discussion of a subject : discourse |
| microcosm | a little world |