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 |
|---|---|
| turgid | excessively embellished in style or language : bombastic |
| truculence | the quality or state of being truculent |
| piscatorial | piscatory |
| ensue | to strive to attain : pursue |
| vogue | popular acceptation or favor : popularity |
| frugality | the quality or state of being frugal : careful management of material resources and especially money : thrift |
| practicable | capable of being put into practice or of being done or accomplished : feasible |
| levitate | to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation |
| static | exerting force by reason of weight alone without motion |
| irascible | marked by hot temper and easily provoked anger |