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 |
|---|---|
| quash | to suppress or extinguish summarily and completely |
| gainsay | to declare to be untrue or invalid |
| gadfly | any of various flies (such as a horsefly, botfly, or warble fly) that bite or annoy livestock |
| lucrative | producing wealth : profitable |
| surge | to rise and fall actively : toss |
| malign | evil in nature, influence, or effect : injurious |
| putative | commonly accepted or supposed |
| maverick | an unbranded range animal |
| matrix | something within or from which something else originates, develops, or takes form |
| tryst | an agreement (as between lovers) to meet |