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.
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| febrile | marked or caused by fever : feverish |
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| inter | to deposit (a dead body) in the earth or in a tomb |
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| castigation | to subject to severe punishment, reproof, or criticism |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |