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 |
|---|---|
| precipice | a very steep or overhanging place |
| trifle | something of little value, substance, or importance |
| mendicant | beggar |
| handsome | having a pleasing and usually impressive or dignified appearance |
| bravado | blustering swaggering conduct |
| abide | to bear patiently : tolerate |
| gadfly | any of various flies (such as a horsefly, botfly, or warble fly) that bite or annoy livestock |
| neophyte | a new convert : proselyte |
| interstice | a space that intervenes between things |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |