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 |
|---|---|
| condone | to regard or treat (something bad or blameworthy) as acceptable, forgivable, or harmless |
| husband | a male partner in a marriage |
| frenetic | marked by fast and energetic, disordered, or anxiety-driven activity : frenzied |
| component | a constituent part : ingredient |
| waylay | to lie in wait for or attack (someone) from ambush |
| clip | encompass |
| vitiate | to make faulty or defective : impair |
| penitent | feeling or expressing humble or regretful pain or sorrow for sins or offenses : repentant |
| tangential | touching lightly : incidental |
| embryonic | of or relating to an embryo |