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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motifa usually recurring salient thematic element (as in the arts)
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ornatemarked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric
raffleto engage in a raffle
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