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 |
|---|---|
| flaunt | to display or obtrude oneself to public notice |
| glaring | having a fixed look of hostility, fierceness, or anger |
| prodigal | characterized by profuse or wasteful expenditure : lavish |
| obloquy | a strongly condemnatory utterance : abusive language |
| determinate | having defined limits |
| fresco | the art of painting on freshly spread moist lime plaster with water-based pigments |
| carafe | a bottle with a flaring lip used to hold beverages and especially wine |
| run-down | an item-by-item report or review : summary |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| juridical | of or relating to the administration of justice or the office of a judge |