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 |
|---|---|
| opportune | suitable or convenient for a particular occurrence |
| forswear | to make a liar of (oneself) under or as if under oath |
| apostate | one who commits apostasy |
| obdurate | stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing |
| permissive | granted on sufferance : tolerated |
| disproportion | lack of proportion, symmetry, or proper relation : disparity |
| whit | the smallest part or particle imaginable : bit |
| revert | to come or go back (as to a former condition, period, or subject) |
| suckle | to give milk to from the breast or udder |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |