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 |
|---|---|
| dowdy | not neat or becoming in appearance : shabby |
| bilk | to block the free development of : frustrate |
| layman | a person who is not a member of the clergy |
| pervert | to cause to turn aside or away from what is good or true or morally right : corrupt |
| jollity | the quality or state of being jolly : merriment |
| stoic | a member of a school of philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium about 300 b.c. |
| obese | having excessive body fat |
| lithe | easily bent or flexed |
| beleaguer | besiege |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |