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 |
|---|---|
| besiege | to surround with armed forces |
| disjunction | a sharp cleavage : disunion |
| loquacious | full of excessive talk : wordy |
| emollient | making soft or supple |
| atone | to make amends : to provide or serve as reparation or compensation for something bad or unwelcome |
| alchemy | a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life |
| defrock | to deprive of the right to exercise the functions of office |
| tribunal | a court or forum of justice |
| cupidity | inordinate desire for wealth : avarice |
| disinclination | a preference for avoiding something : slight aversion |