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 |
|---|---|
| flay | to strip off the skin or surface of : skin |
| grisly | inspiring horror or intense fear |
| effigy | an image or representation especially of a person |
| atrophy | decrease in size or wasting away of a body part or tissue |
| litany | a prayer consisting of a series of invocations and supplications by the leader with alternate responses by the congregation |
| deviate | to stray especially from a standard, principle, or topic |
| genesis | the origin or coming into being of something |
| arbitrary | existing or coming about seemingly at random or by chance or as a capricious and unreasonable act of will |
| defile | to make unclean or impure: such as |
| artisan | a worker who practices a trade or handicraft : craftsperson |