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 |
|---|---|
| ecosystem | the complex of a community of organisms and its environment functioning as an ecological unit |
| obstinate | stubbornly adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasion |
| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
| barrage | a dam placed in a watercourse to increase the depth of water or to divert it into a channel for navigation or irrigation |
| bewitch | to influence or affect especially injuriously by witchcraft |
| dissuade | to advise (a person) against something |
| desultory | marked by lack of definite plan, regularity, or purpose |
| astronomical | of or relating to astronomy |
| xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |
| inamorata | a woman with whom one is in love or has intimate relations |