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 |
|---|---|
| astral | of, relating to, or coming from the stars |
| effeminate | having feminine qualities untypical of a man : not manly in appearance or manner |
| retinue | a group of retainers or attendants |
| hothead | a hotheaded person |
| retroactive | extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past |
| ballast | a heavy substance (such as rocks or water) placed in such a way as to improve stability and control (as of the draft of a ship or the buoyancy of a balloon or submarine) |
| monograph | a learned treatise on a small area of learning |
| herpetologist | a branch of zoology dealing with reptiles and amphibians |
| sundry | including many things of different kinds : miscellaneous |
| temperate | having a moderate climate which especially lacks extremes in temperature |