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 |
|---|---|
| spawn | to deposit or fertilize spawn |
| natty | trimly neat and tidy : smart |
| effervescence | the property of forming bubbles : the action or process of effervescing |
| auspicious | showing or suggesting that future success is likely : propitious |
| bulge | to jut out : swell |
| languid | drooping or flagging from or as if from exhaustion : weak |
| jetsam | the part of a ship, its equipment, or its cargo that is cast overboard to lighten the load in time of distress and that sinks or is washed ashore |
| brazen | made of brass |
| confidential | marked by intimacy or willingness to confide |
| ursine | of or relating to a bear or the bear family (Ursidae) |