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 |
|---|---|
| quietude | a quiet state : repose |
| creed | a brief authoritative formula of religious belief |
| yokel | a naive or gullible inhabitant of a rural area or small town |
| annul | to declare or make legally invalid or void |
| nonentity | something that does not exist or exists only in the imagination |
| extenuate | to lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of (something, such as a fault or offense) by making partial excuses : mitigate |
| soporific | causing or tending to cause sleep |
| gross | glaringly noticeable usually because of inexcusable badness or objectionableness |
| cartographer | one that makes maps |
| proscribe | to publish the name of as condemned to death with the property of the condemned forfeited to the state |