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 |
|---|---|
| gnome | maxim |
| alleviate | relieve |
| cauterize | to sear with a cautery or caustic |
| relevant | having significant and demonstrable bearing on the matter at hand |
| infest | to spread or swarm in or over in a troublesome manner |
| distraught | agitated with doubt or mental conflict or pain |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |
| intrinsic | belonging to the essential nature or constitution of a thing |
| cater | to provide a supply of food |
| rotund | marked by roundness : rounded |