invigilate.
To oversee a test or exam.
Meaning & usage
To oversee a test or exam.
Professor Burns will be invigilating over the final examinations to ensure that the students do not cheat.
To keep watch.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Latin invigilātus, past participle of invigilō (“to stay awake, watch over”).
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