GRE Word List
CRUX
a puzzling or difficult problem : an unsolved question
The meaning of the word crux is a puzzling or difficult problem : an unsolved question.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| anthropomorphic | described or thought of as having a human form or human attributes |
| incubate | to sit on (eggs) so as to hatch by the warmth of the body |
| sparse | of few and scattered elements |
| florid | very flowery in style : ornate |
| homeostasis | a relatively stable state of equilibrium or a tendency toward such a state between the different but interdependent elements or groups of elements of an organism, population, or group |
| clap | to strike (two things, such as two flat, hard surfaces) together so as to produce a sharp percussive noise |
| vaunted | highly or widely praised or boasted about |
| erratic | having no fixed course : wandering |
| apocryphal | of doubtful authenticity : spurious |