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 |
|---|---|
| poignancy | the quality or state of being poignant |
| accolade | a mark of acknowledgment : award |
| seclusion | the act of secluding : the condition of being secluded |
| exacting | tryingly or unremittingly severe in making demands |
| executive | of or relating to the execution of the laws and the conduct of public and national affairs |
| sway | the action or an instance of swaying or of being swayed : an oscillating, fluctuating, or sweeping motion |
| adjacent | not distant : nearby |
| ravenous | rapacious |
| silt | loose sedimentary material with rock particles usually ¹/₂₀ millimeter or less in diameter |
| punctilious | marked by or concerned about precise accordance with the details of codes or conventions |