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 |
|---|---|
| apiarist | beekeeper |
| gory | covered with gore : bloodstained |
| suavity | smoothly though often superficially gracious and sophisticated |
| draw | to cause to move continuously toward or after a force applied in advance : pull |
| maim | to mutilate, disfigure, or wound seriously |
| levitate | to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation |
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| bombastic | marked by or given to speech or writing that is given exaggerated importance by artificial or empty means : marked by or given to bombast : pompous |
| cataclysm | flood |
| obsidian | a dark natural glass formed by the cooling of molten lava |