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 |
|---|---|
| outlaw | a person excluded from the benefit or protection of the law |
| profane | to treat (something sacred) with abuse, irreverence, or contempt : desecrate |
| reciprocate | to give and take mutually |
| benison | blessing |
| quibble | to evade the point of an argument by caviling about words |
| debase | to lower in status, esteem, quality, or character |
| monumental | serving as or resembling a monument : massive |
| chapel | a subordinate or private place of worship: such as |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| hardy | bold |