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).
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| grotesque | a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature |
| abash | to destroy the self-possession or self-confidence of (someone) : disconcert |
| urgent | calling for immediate attention : pressing |
| silt | loose sedimentary material with rock particles usually ¹/₂₀ millimeter or less in diameter |
| infer | to derive as a conclusion from facts or premises |
| upright | perpendicular |
| specious | having a false look of truth or genuineness : sophistic |
| equine | of, relating to, or resembling a horse or the horse family |
| recipient | one that receives : receiver |
| denotation | an act or process of denoting |