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 |
|---|---|
| unfledged | not feathered : not ready for flight |
| protean | of or resembling Proteus in having a varied nature or ability to assume different forms |
| deviate | to stray especially from a standard, principle, or topic |
| ward | the action or process of guarding |
| rote | the use of memory usually with little intelligence |
| bucolic | of or relating to shepherds or herdsmen : pastoral |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |
| domineer | to exercise arbitrary or overbearing control |
| wrongheaded | stubborn in adherence to wrong opinion or principles |
| careen | to put (a ship or boat) on a beach especially in order to clean, caulk, or repair the hull |