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 |
|---|---|
| verbose | containing more words than necessary : wordy |
| obsessive | tending to cause obsession |
| ironic | relating to, containing, or constituting irony |
| parochial | of or relating to a church parish |
| mite | any of numerous small acarid arachnids that often infest animals, plants, and stored foods and include important disease vectors |
| euphemism | the substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant |
| enfranchise | to set free (as from slavery) |
| connivance | the act of conniving |
| anthropoid | any of a suborder (Anthropoidea) of higher primates (such as macaques and marmosets) |
| usage | firmly established and generally accepted practice or procedure |