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 |
|---|---|
| convoluted | having convolutions |
| dys- | abnormal |
| apoplexy | stroke |
| killjoy | one who spoils the pleasure of others |
| genteel | having an aristocratic quality or flavor : stylish |
| qualify | to reduce from a general to a particular or restricted form : modify |
| miserly | of, relating to, or characteristic of a miser |
| quisling | traitor |
| tundra | a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs |
| distinction | the act of perceiving someone or something as being not the same and often treating as separate or different : the distinguishing of a difference |