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 |
|---|---|
| devise | to form in the mind by new combinations or applications of ideas or principles : invent |
| sinister | singularly evil or productive of evil |
| arrhythmic | lacking rhythm or regularity |
| extricate | to free or remove from an entanglement or difficulty |
| shangri-la | a remote beautiful imaginary place where life approaches perfection : utopia |
| debauch | to corrupt by intemperance or sensuality |
| suffocate | to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation) |
| fluency | the quality or state of being fluent |
| sophomoric | conceited and overconfident of knowledge but poorly informed and immature |
| hindsight | perception of the nature of an event after it has happened |