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 |
|---|---|
| imprudent | not prudent : lacking discretion, wisdom, or good judgment |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| arable | fit for or used for the growing of crops |
| thresh | to separate seed from (a harvested plant) mechanically |
| monogram | a sign of identity usually formed of the combined initials of a name |
| decipher | decode |
| insidious | having a gradual and cumulative effect : subtle |
| saga | a prose narrative recorded in Iceland in the 12th and 13th centuries of historic or legendary figures and events of the heroic age of Norway and Iceland |
| backslide | to lapse morally or in the practice of religion |
| carafe | a bottle with a flaring lip used to hold beverages and especially wine |