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 |
|---|---|
| vagary | an erratic, unpredictable, or extravagant manifestation, action, or notion |
| devolve | to pass on (something, such as responsibility, rights, or powers) from one person or entity to another |
| repeal | to rescind or annul by authoritative act |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| lope | an easy natural gait of a horse resembling a canter |
| hedonist | a person who is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure : someone who practices hedonism |
| amputate | to remove by or as if by cutting |
| caste | one of the hereditary social classes in Hinduism that restrict the occupation of their members and their association with the members of other castes |
| underlying | lying beneath or below |
| gibberish | unintelligible or meaningless language: |