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 |
|---|---|
| synthetic | relating to or involving synthesis : not analytic |
| cower | to shrink away or crouch especially for shelter from something that menaces, domineers, or dismays |
| assert | to state or declare positively and often forcefully or aggressively |
| reek | smoke |
| acoustics | a science that deals with the production, control, transmission, reception, and effects of sound |
| laceration | the act of lacerating |
| gaudy | ostentatiously or tastelessly ornamented |
| gruel | a thin porridge |
| spontaneity | the quality or state of being spontaneous |
| epitaph | an inscription on or at a tomb or a grave in memory of the one buried there |