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 |
|---|---|
| counterpart | one of two corresponding copies of a legal instrument : duplicate |
| violate | break |
| absolve | to set (someone) free from an obligation or the consequences of guilt |
| malaise | an indefinite feeling of debility or lack of health often indicative of or accompanying the onset of an illness |
| ominous | being or exhibiting an omen : portentous |
| cordon | an ornamental cord or ribbon |
| xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |
| dormer | a window set vertically in a structure projecting through a sloping roof |
| adjourn | to suspend indefinitely or until a later stated time |
| phoenix | a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period |