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 |
|---|---|
| prescience | foreknowledge of events: |
| cogitate | to ponder or meditate on usually intently |
| aloft | at or to a great height |
| executor | one who executes something |
| dregs | sediment contained in a liquid or precipitated (see precipitate |
| voyeur | someone who obtains sexual gratification from observing unsuspecting individuals who are partly undressed, naked, or engaged in sexual acts |
| obstetrician | a physician specializing in obstetrics |
| circumscribe | to constrict (see constrict |
| screech | a high shrill piercing cry usually expressing pain or terror |
| demise | death |