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 |
|---|---|
| mandatory | required by a law or rule : obligatory |
| chase | the hunting of wild animals |
| compilation | the act or process of compiling |
| palliate | to reduce the violence of (a disease) |
| dossier | a file containing detailed records on a particular person or subject |
| recidivism | a tendency to relapse into a previous condition or mode of behavior |
| torrid | parched with heat especially of the sun : hot |
| abortive | prematurely born |
| allege | to assert without proof or before proving |
| epoch | an event or a time marked by an event that begins a new period or development |