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 |
|---|---|
| tycoon | a businessperson of exceptional wealth, power, and influence : magnate |
| loquacious | full of excessive talk : wordy |
| chicanery | deception by artful subterfuge or sophistry : trickery |
| foist | to introduce or insert surreptitiously or without warrant |
| frenetic | marked by fast and energetic, disordered, or anxiety-driven activity : frenzied |
| aptitude | inclination |
| hoard | a supply or fund stored up and often hidden away |
| shed | to rid oneself of temporarily or permanently as superfluous or unwanted |
| flounder | flatfish |
| salient | moving by leaps or springs : jumping |