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 |
|---|---|
| mischance | bad luck |
| fetish | an object (such as a small stone carving of an animal) believed to have magical power to protect or aid its owner |
| perpetrate | to bring about or carry out (something, such as a crime or deception) : commit |
| mimicry | an instance of mimicking |
| raze | to destroy to the ground : demolish |
| scrutinize | to examine closely and minutely |
| maroon | a dark red |
| compilation | the act or process of compiling |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| embed | to enclose closely in or as if in a matrix |