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 |
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| insensible | incapable or bereft of feeling or sensation: such as |
| placebo | a usually pharmacologically inert preparation prescribed more for the mental relief of the patient than for its actual effect on a disorder |
| scavenge | to remove (dirt, refuse, etc.) from an area |
| itinerant | traveling from place to place |
| quorum | a select group |
| facetious | joking or jesting often inappropriately : waggish |
| beseech | to beg for urgently or anxiously |
| dislodge | to drive from a position of hiding, defense, or advantage |
| breadth | distance from side to side : width |
| grouse | any of various chiefly ground-dwelling birds (family Tetraonidae) that are usually of reddish-brown or other protective color and have feathered legs and that include many important game birds |