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 |
|---|---|
| timorous | of a timid disposition : fearful |
| disjunction | a sharp cleavage : disunion |
| quisling | traitor |
| polarize | to cause to vibrate in a definite pattern |
| hew | to cut with blows of a heavy cutting instrument |
| pedestrian | commonplace |
| conjugal | of or relating to the married state or to married persons and their relations : connubial |
| encompass | include |
| slavish | of or characteristic of someone held in forced servitude |
| typhoon | a hurricane occurring especially in the region of the Philippines or the China sea |