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 |
|---|---|
| foppish | foolish |
| indignity | an act that offends against a person's dignity or self-respect : insult |
| frugality | the quality or state of being frugal : careful management of material resources and especially money : thrift |
| haughtiness | blatantly and disdainfully proud : having or showing an attitude of superiority and contempt for people or things perceived to be inferior |
| rationale | an explanation of controlling principles of opinion, belief, practice, or phenomena |
| rectitude | the quality or state of being straight |
| decapitate | to cut off the head of : behead |
| wax | a substance that is secreted by bees and is used by them for constructing the honeycomb, that is a dull yellow solid plastic when warm, and that is composed primarily of a mixture of esters, hydrocarbons, and fatty acids : beeswax |
| havoc | wide and general destruction : devastation |
| vagabond | a person who wanders from place to place without a fixed home : one leading a vagabond life |