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 |
|---|---|
| debonair | suave |
| parity | the quality or state of being equal or equivalent |
| sprightly | marked by a gay lightness and vivacity : spirited |
| partisan | a firm adherent to a party, faction, cause, or person |
| extrinsic | not forming part of or belonging to a thing : extraneous |
| cross | a structure consisting of an upright with a transverse beam used especially by the ancient Romans for execution |
| camp | a place usually away from urban areas where tents or simple buildings (such as cabins) are erected for shelter or for temporary residence (as for laborers, prisoners, or vacationers) |
| effectual | producing or able to produce a desired effect |
| impotent | not potent : lacking in power, strength, or vigor : helpless |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |