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 |
|---|---|
| blandishment | something that tends to coax or cajole : allurement |
| haggard | not tamed |
| rail | a bar extending from one post or support to another and serving as a guard or barrier |
| circumlocution | the use of an unnecessarily large number of words to express an idea |
| prude | a person who is excessively or priggishly attentive to propriety or decorum |
| germinal | being in the earliest stage of development |
| enliven | to give life, action, or spirit to : animate |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| warp | a series of yarns extended lengthwise in a loom and crossed by the weft |
| consign | to give over to another's care |