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 |
|---|---|
| mordant | biting and caustic in thought, manner, or style : incisive |
| hone | to sharpen or smooth with a whetstone |
| lank | not well filled out : slender |
| restive | stubbornly resisting control : balky |
| evocative | evoking or tending to evoke an especially emotional response |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
| rent | property (such as a house) rented or for rent |
| prognosis | the prospect of recovery as anticipated from the usual course of disease or peculiarities of the case |
| subjective | of, relating to, or constituting a subject: such as |
| swarm | a great number of honeybees emigrating together from a hive in company with a queen to start a new colony elsewhere |