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 |
|---|---|
| flora | a treatise on or list of the plants of an area or period |
| torrid | parched with heat especially of the sun : hot |
| reserve | to hold in reserve : keep back |
| bombast | pretentious inflated speech or writing |
| motif | a usually recurring salient thematic element (as in the arts) |
| synthesis | the composition or combination of parts or elements so as to form a whole |
| respiration | the movement of air or dissolved gases into and out of the lungs |
| ensconce | shelter |
| apoplexy | stroke |
| inert | lacking the power to move |