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.

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gyroscopea wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin
languishto be or become feeble, weak, or enervated
coymarked by cute, coquettish, or artful playfulness
prongfork
ineptgenerally incompetent : bungling
nascentcoming or having recently come into existence
conclusiveof, relating to, or being a conclusion
contrivedevise
latchto lay hold with or as if with the hands or arms
thralla state of servitude or submission