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 |
|---|---|
| torque | a force that produces or tends to produce rotation or torsion |
| throttle | to compress the throat of : choke |
| hedonist | a person who is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure : someone who practices hedonism |
| premeditate | to think about and revolve in the mind beforehand |
| repository | a place, room, or container where something is deposited or stored : depository |
| depose | to remove from a throne or other high position |
| composure | a calmness or repose especially of mind, bearing, or appearance : self-possession |
| exhale | to rise or be given off as vapor |
| afterlife | an existence after death |
| stupor | a condition of greatly dulled or completely suspended sense or sensibility |