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 |
|---|---|
| arrogance | an attitude of superiority manifested in an overbearing manner or in presumptuous claims or assumptions |
| rider | one that rides |
| overblown | past the prime of bloom |
| relegate | to send into exile : banish |
| incline | to bend the head or body forward : bow |
| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
| defame | to harm the reputation of by communicating false statements about : to harm the reputation of by libel (see libel |
| beneficent | doing or producing good |
| brazen | made of brass |
| nib | bill |