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 |
|---|---|
| proselytize | to induce someone to convert to one's faith |
| bellicose | favoring or inclined to start quarrels or wars |
| shift | to exchange for or replace by another : change |
| fallacious | embodying a fallacy |
| adulterate | to corrupt, debase, or make impure by the addition of a foreign or inferior substance or element |
| ovoid | resembling an egg in shape : ovate |
| peer | one that is of equal standing with another : equal |
| guffaw | a loud or boisterous burst of laughter |
| shed | to rid oneself of temporarily or permanently as superfluous or unwanted |
| irreverence | lack of reverence |