GRE Word List
STIFLE
to withhold from circulation or expression
The meaning of the word stifle is to withhold from circulation or expression.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| evanescent | tending to vanish like vapor |
| rooster | an adult male domestic chicken |
| disparage | to depreciate (see depreciate |
| grotesque | a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature |
| devise | to form in the mind by new combinations or applications of ideas or principles : invent |
| alleviate | relieve |
| roil | to make turbid by stirring up the sediment or dregs of |
| celibate | of, relating to, or characterized by celibacy: |
| undermine | to subvert or weaken insidiously or secretly |
| recrimination | a retaliatory accusation |