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 |
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| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| heresy | adherence to a religious opinion contrary to church dogma (see dogma |
| stoke | to poke or stir up (a fire, flames, etc.) : supply with fuel |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| precipitous | precipitate |
| plumage | the feathers of a bird |
| dawdle | to spend time idly |
| horticultural | the science and art of growing fruits, vegetables, flowers, or ornamental plants |
| windfall | something (such as a tree or fruit) blown down by the wind |
| ordination | the act or an instance of ordaining : the state of being ordained |