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 |
|---|---|
| contaminate | to soil, stain, corrupt, or infect by contact or association |
| mayhem | needless or willful damage or violence |
| maneuver | a military or naval movement |
| roster | a roll or list of personnel |
| stun | to make senseless, groggy, or dizzy by or as if by a blow : daze |
| unprepossessing | not tending to create a favorable impression : not prepossessing |
| rout | a state of wild confusion or disorderly retreat |
| canto | one of the major divisions of a long poem |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| unsullied | not soiled or tarnished : not sullied |