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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| urgent | calling for immediate attention : pressing |
| impute | to lay the responsibility or blame for (something) often falsely or unjustly |
| toll | a tax or fee paid for some liberty or privilege (as of passing over a highway or bridge) |
| humility | freedom from pride or arrogance : the quality or state of being humble |
| throes | pang |
| optometrist | a specialist licensed to practice optometry compare ophthalmologist |
| edify | to instruct and improve especially in moral and religious knowledge : uplift |
| pariah | a member of a low caste of southern India |
| anthropomorphic | described or thought of as having a human form or human attributes |
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |