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 |
|---|---|
| apiculture | the keeping of bees especially on a large scale |
| steep | lofty |
| minuscule | very small |
| hoax | to trick into believing or accepting as genuine something false and often preposterous |
| solecism | an ungrammatical combination of words in a sentence |
| aver | to declare positively |
| saboteur | one that practices sabotage |
| blue | of the color whose hue is that of the clear sky : of the color blue (see blue |
| odious | arousing or deserving hatred or repugnance : hateful |
| innocuous | producing no injury : harmless |