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 |
|---|---|
| glib | showing little forethought or preparation : offhand |
| pandemonium | a wild uproar (as because of anger or excitement in a crowd of people) |
| spectrum | a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order |
| arsenal | an establishment for the manufacture or storage of arms and military equipment |
| awry | off the correct or expected course : amiss |
| pang | a brief piercing spasm of pain |
| spontaneity | the quality or state of being spontaneous |
| nonsense | words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas |
| resignation | an act or instance of resigning something : surrender |
| masticate | to grind or crush (food) with or as if with the teeth : chew |