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 |
|---|---|
| inquisitor | one who inquires or makes inquisition |
| husbandry | the cultivation or production of plants or animals : agriculture |
| visceral | felt in or as if in the internal organs of the body : deep |
| delude | to mislead the mind or judgment of : deceive |
| postmortem | done, occurring, or collected after death |
| plumb | a lead weight attached to a line and used to indicate a vertical direction |
| ramshackle | appearing ready to collapse : rickety |
| penumbra | a space of partial illumination (as in an eclipse) between the perfect shadow on all sides and the full light |
| palm | any of a family (Palmae synonym Arecaceae) of mostly tropical or subtropical monocotyledonous trees, shrubs, or vines with usually a simple stem and a terminal crown of large pinnate or fan-shaped leaves |
| tumult | disorderly agitation or milling about of a crowd usually with uproar and confusion of voices : commotion |