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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| Word | Meaning |
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| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| inadvertently | unintentional |
| inveigh | to protest or complain bitterly or vehemently : rail |
| muse | to become absorbed in thought |
| doze | to sleep lightly |
| unguent | a soothing or healing salve : ointment |
| palpable | capable of being touched or felt : tangible |
| hazardous | involving or exposing one to risk (as of loss or harm) |
| compendium | a brief summary of a larger work or of a field of knowledge : abstract |
| bicameral | having, consisting of, or based on two legislative chambers (see chamber |