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 |
|---|---|
| scurvy | a disease caused by a lack of vitamin C and characterized by spongy gums, loosening of the teeth, and a bleeding into the skin and mucous membranes |
| latitude | angular distance from some specified circle or plane of reference: such as |
| indigence | a level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking |
| acidulous | somewhat acid or harsh in taste or manner |
| expenditure | the act or process of expending |
| cohorts | companion |
| crave | to ask for earnestly : beg |
| nomenclature | name |
| persist | to go on resolutely or stubbornly in spite of opposition, importunity, or warning |
| juncture | a point of time |