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 |
|---|---|
| malevolent | having, showing, or arising from intense often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred |
| requiem | a mass for the dead |
| stoop | to bend the body or a part of the body forward and downward sometimes simultaneously bending the knees |
| prognosticate | to foretell from signs or symptoms : predict |
| pique | to excite or arouse especially by a provocation, challenge, or rebuff |
| braid | to make from braids |
| lope | an easy natural gait of a horse resembling a canter |
| rebuke | to criticize sharply : reprimand |
| oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined |
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |