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 |
|---|---|
| physiological | of or relating to physiology |
| mincing | affectedly dainty or delicate |
| deify | to make a god of |
| singular | of or relating to a separate person or thing : individual |
| swathe | a band used in swathing |
| stipend | a fixed sum of money paid periodically for services or to defray expenses |
| sequester | to set apart : segregate |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| noxious | physically harmful or destructive to living beings |
| rolling | (of land) rising and falling in long gentle slopes; happening continuously by stages; Ex. rolling devolution of power to local governments |