GRE Word List
PRIZE
something offered or striven for in competition or in contests of chance
The meaning of the word prize is something offered or striven for in competition or in contests of chance.
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| stifle | to withhold from circulation or expression |
| piquant | engagingly provocative |
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| histrionic | deliberately affected : overly dramatic or emotional : theatrical |
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