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 |
|---|---|
| sluggard | a habitually lazy person |
| profusion | lavish expenditure : extravagance |
| fatuous | complacently or inanely foolish : silly |
| proscribe | to publish the name of as condemned to death with the property of the condemned forfeited to the state |
| fractious | tending to be troublesome : unruly |
| atrophy | decrease in size or wasting away of a body part or tissue |
| cerebration | to use the mind : think |
| tautological | involving or containing rhetorical tautology : redundant |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
| matinee | a musical or dramatic performance or social or public event held in the daytime and especially the afternoon |