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 |
|---|---|
| foist | to introduce or insert surreptitiously or without warrant |
| perspicacious | of acute mental vision or discernment : keen |
| quash | to suppress or extinguish summarily and completely |
| presentiment | a feeling that something will or is about to happen : premonition |
| lush | growing vigorously especially with luxuriant foliage |
| plumb | a lead weight attached to a line and used to indicate a vertical direction |
| bid | to offer (a price) whether for payment or acceptance |
| kleptomaniac | a person evidencing kleptomania |
| seep | to flow or pass slowly through fine pores or small openings : ooze |
| consternation | amazement or dismay that hinders or throws into confusion |